How to Add and Remove Profiles in Windows Terminal app in Windows 10


The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations.

Any application that has a command line interface can be run inside Windows Terminal. This includes everything from PowerShell and Command Prompt to Azure Cloud Shell and any WSL distribution such as Ubuntu or Oh-My-Zsh.

Starting with Windows 10 build 21337, Windows Terminal is now an inbox app.

Windows Terminal will automatically create Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and PowerShell profiles for you if you have these shells installed on your machine. This makes it easier for you to have all of your shells included in the terminal without having to locate their executable files.

Regardless of whether a new shell is installed before or after the Windows Terminal app installation, the terminal will create a new profile for the newly installed shell.

If you like, you can add your own new custom profiles to run any application or shell from within Windows Terminal.

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This tutorial will show you how to add and remove custom profiles in the Windows Terminal app for your account in Windows 10.

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OPTION ONE

Add New Profile in Windows Terminal app


1 Open the Windows Terminal app.

2 Click/tap on the down arrow button on the top bar, and click/tap on Settings Ctrl + , (comma). (see screenshot below)

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3 Click/tap on + Add new under Profiles on the left pane. (see screenshot below)

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4 Change the General, Appearance, and Advanced settings to what you want for this profile. (see screenshots above and below)


5 When finished with settings, click/tap on Save.

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6 You can now close the Settings tab or Windows Terminal if you like.






OPTION TWO

Delete Profile in Windows Terminal app


1 Open the Windows Terminal app.

2 Click/tap on the down arrow button on the top bar, and click/tap on Settings Ctrl + , (comma). (see screenshot below)

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3 Under Profiles in the left pane, click/tap on the profile (ex: "Notepad") you want to delete. (see screenshot below)

4 Click/tap on the Delete profile button in General settings on the right side.

5 Click/tap on Yes, delete profile to confirm.

Automatically generated profiles cannot be deleted. You can only delete profiles you have added.
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6 Click/tap on the Save button to apply.

7 You can now close the Settings tab or Windows Terminal if you like.

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That's it,
Shawn Brink


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