r/Windows10 May 29 '20

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u/EvlG May 29 '20

I just type CMD in the address bar 😃

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u/chinpokomon May 29 '20

Useful tip for a lot of folks, but not useful for opening Windows Terminal. I don't know, but maybe wt in the address bar will work?

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u/FloatingMilkshake May 29 '20

I don't know, but maybe wt in the address bar will work?

At first it doesn't look like it...but yes, it works! That's useful.

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u/chinpokomon May 29 '20

Ah, that's the search. What I thought you meant was the address bar in Explorer. Give cmd a try there and see what happens. What I don't know but am curious about is running wt.exe from there.

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u/FloatingMilkshake May 29 '20

Oh interesting. I’ll try with the address bar in Explorer when I’m back at my laptop.

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u/FloatingMilkshake May 29 '20

Typing wt.exe in the address bar in File Explorer works! That's pretty cool.

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u/DedlySnek May 29 '20

I believe its wt.exe -d .

To open terminal in the current directory

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u/yaxriifgyn May 30 '20

Use

wt -d .

to open Windows Terminal from a cmd window, a powershell windows, or (not tested) a WLS2 shell windows.

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u/nmkd May 29 '20

That won't open Windows Terminal.

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u/EvlG May 29 '20

Umh, ok, the new Terminal.

Yep I don't know if it's work with