One reason that I've stuck with WSL on Windows, to the point that I install it on every new Windows machine I get, instead of ...

You can add a cascading or expandable context menu item to open Windows Terminal in Default, Command Prompt, PowerShell Profile.

Windows 11 comes with a command line tool dubbed Windows Terminal. Designed to launch a PowerShell command prompt, Windows Terminal offers a few enhancements over the traditional command prompt ...

With the Terminal, Windows has a common interface for Powershell, Command Prompt, and Azure Cloud Shell. This allows you to start the terminal directly with the command prompt.

You also see the results right away. PowerShell is actually built as a drop-in replacement for Cmd. It runs all the same command-line tools and has most of the same built-in commands.

Command-line utilities were built with these streams in mind. PowerShell, on the other hand, understands these streams but has its own as well. When invoking command-line utilities from PowerShell, ...

Windows 8.1 brought a few changes to the handy Win+X menu, including a new Shut Down option and the addition of PowerShell shortcuts. If you're more of a command prompt user, though, you can bring ...

Build 14971 says goodbye to the classic paint program and puts PowerShell up front instead of the command prompt.