lkpflower.blogg.se - Windows terminal shortcut

I can't find a real LNK file anywhere on my system. I wanted to find a link to the Windows Terminal but it's harder than it looks. Download a closed source utility by Sergey Tkachenko that promises to do these things for you, from.Note the ordering in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellCompatibility\InboxApp.Make a new Group 4 folder in the \WinX folder above OR update Group 3 and copy your link in there considering the numbering scheme.Rafael's utility has the source at GitHub and the binary here.Store a special hash in your LNK file per Rafael's excellent writeup here so that they are considered "Approved Links.".

BUT! Your lnk file can't (today?) be a LNK to a Windows Store app - more on that later.Make or find a LNK file for your application.They didn't want just anyone dropping stuff in there so to add a new application to Windows+X you need to: Just drop yours in there, right? Well, I say nay nay! You can go check out C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX and find it full of LNK files. The Win+X implementation is a totally bonkers thing that I just don't understand with its origins lost to the mist of forgotten time. It is that last one that concerns me today.

Add Windows Terminal to the Win+X menu.

Train yourself to Win+R and run "wt" rather than "cmd.exe" at wt.exe is a shim that launches the store-based Windows Terminal.

Until then, we can integrate the Windows Terminal into our lives in a few obvious ways. We want to replace the default console with the Windows Terminal everywhere as the default but that's gonna be a while. I want Windows Terminal in that Win+X menu.įast Forward to a world with lots of alternative console hosts, Linux running on Windows natively, not to mention cross-platform open source PowerShell Core, AND the new open source Windows Terminal (that you can just go download right now in the Windows Store) we find ourselves in a middle place. There's one obscure setting in Settings | Taskbar where you can set the main option for the Command Prompt to be replaced with PowerShell, although that was flipped to "on" by default many years ago. The Windows+X hotkey has been around for many years as is a simple right-click style context list of Developer/Administrator stuff that your techies might need in the course of human events. You shouldn't do this and if you choose to do this you may hurt yourself or one of your beloved pets.