Windows opens all command line tools in the old Windows Console environment. Despite this, you can make Windows Terminal your default Terminal app every time you start Command Prompt or PowerShell.
Why should I switch to the Windows terminal?
When you open a command prompt or PowerShell in Windows 10, each session starts in a separate window. Unfortunately, that means you will end up shuffling multiple open windows on your desktop.
The Windows Terminal application opens in a tabbed view by default to help you manage multiple command line windows. At the same time, additionally you can run PowerShell and CMD in separate tabs.
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Switching to the Windows Terminal app gives you access to other features like themes, emoji compatibility, multiple sessions, split panels, GPU rendering and many other customizations.
These functions will not reach the Windows console. This is why changing the default Terminal application to Windows Terminal is a good idea..
At the same time, Windows 11 use the Windows Terminal application as the default command line environment to open CMD, PowerShell and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Until Windows 11 start to roll out at the end of 2021, you can start using Windows Terminal as the default in Windows 10 now.
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How to make Windows Terminal your default terminal app
Before starting, you must download and install the Windows terminal application if you don't have it on your computer.
Launch the Windows Terminal application, select the down arrow menu and click “Setting”. Or you can press Ctrl +, (coma) to open “Setting” In a direct way.
In the Settings window that opens, you can see that the “Default terminal application” is set to “Windows Console Host (ConHost.exe)”. That means Windows uses the legacy terminal application ConHost.exe for CMD or PowerShell.
Click the drop-down menu of “Default terminal application” and select Windows Terminal from the list.
By default, Windows Terminal application uses Windows PowerShell profile when application starts.
Despite this, you can change it to run a different shell profile. For that, click the drop-down menu of “Default profile” to select from Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows PowerShell o Azure Cloud Shell.
Click the button “Keep” to apply the changes you made.
That is all. After that, every time you open command prompt or PowerShell, Windows will run the Windows Terminal application and you can also customize its appearance.
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