Get: Open Windows Terminal Here

Right Click in Any Folder

It is always good to have this quick option at just the right click of the mouse to open Windows Terminal at any folder.

Way 1: We can open Windows Terminal at any folder by typing wt.exe at the address bar of the folder path.

But open a terminal with just a right-click is easier than Way 1. So let’s get started with Way 2:

Step 1: Make a terminal folder in C:\\Users\\”Your User Name”\\AppData\\Local\\ or C:\Users\”Your User Name”\AppData\Local\

Here I am using “\\” just because in the registry file we need to give the path like this. So here you just have to create a terminal folder in your user’s AppData’s Local folder.

Copy the windows terminal icon to the folder C:\Users\” Your User Name”\AppData\Local\terminal\, the icon can be obtained in https://github.com/yanglr/WindowsDevTools/tree/master/awosomeTerminal/icons whose file name is wt_32.ico.

You can use any .ico file you like from that repo.

I have used this .ico file

Step 2: Make wt.reg file there and put this content there:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt]
@="Windows terminal here"
"Icon"="C:\\Users\\jinja\\AppData\\Local\\terminal\\aliyun_32px.ico"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt\command]
@="C:\\Users\\jinja\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\wt.exe"

To be noted, if the exe obtained after building code by yourself is wtd.exe, you need to change the above wt.exe to wtd.exe in the above registry.

The result after Step 2

Step 3: Run wt.reg as administrator and just add keys in the registry.

Result:

This is the final result.

My windows version:

My windows version

Many people get the permission issue for wt.reg. If you get the permission issue then please ping me in feedback. I have solved it a few months back (At that time OS build was older.). But right now with this new OS build, I didn’t get that error. So if you get a permission error, just ping me and I will surely help you.

Thank you for reading this article. Have a great experience with the windows terminal.

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