How to add Open Windows Terminal in Context Menu

The windows terminal is new sleek, fast, customizable and feature packed terminal. It is much more productive than previous Command prompt and PowerShell.

So, if you want to customize the Windows terminal then you can go to this post. The steps have been beautifully curated there.

Beautify your Windows Terminal 🦄

Anup Aglawe ・ May 31 '20

#tutorial #productivity #showdev #design

So, let's get back to adding the Context Menu option

Perquisites

• Windows Terminal icon github.com/microsoft/terminal/raw/master/res/terminal.ico
  ⚠️ (I couldn't find the icon file in the installed folder)
  
  
  
  

• Copy the downloaded icon to this folder

C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\

• Open Text editor copy and paste the following code into it and save as .reg file.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt]
@="Windows terminal here"
"Icon"="C:\\Users\\yourusername\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\terminal.ico"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\yourusername\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\wt.exe\"  -d \"%V\""

• Don't forget to replace yourusername with your username like below.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt]
@="Windows terminal here"
"Icon"="C:\\Users\\mishr\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\terminal.ico"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\mishr\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\wt.exe\"  -d \"%V\""

and save as whatevernameyouwant.reg.

• Run the what_name_you_want.reg file

🤘😎

Windows Terminal ❤

Comments

[Shrikshel]

This does the trick. Thanks a lot.
Link for icon seems updated, here's updated one: github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob...

[Priya Ranjan Kumar]

Yeah Thanks for the link. BTW the version of terminal automatically adds 'open in terminal' to the context menu.
I will suggest you to delete the previous created Registry.😊