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Clarification on WinX Menu PowerShell Fallback - Disappearance of "Windows Terminal" after Crash #17138

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opened 2026-01-31 05:33:13 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 05:33:13 +00:00
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Originally created by @lzlrd on GitHub (Apr 3, 2022).

Windows Terminal version

1.12.10393.0

Windows build number

10.0.22581.0

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Steps to reproduce

Not really sure how to describe this other than the system froze up for some reason and I hard-rebooted.

Expected Behavior

For "Windows Terminal" to appear in the WinX menu instead of "Windows PowerShell".

Actual Behavior

"Windows PowerShell" appears in the WinX menu, which according to https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/12204 is supposed to fallback when wt.exe (via App Execution Aliases) is unavailable. Here's a visual of what I mean:

the screenshot

wt.exe did error out at first when being called from Run, but after performing a "Repair" from within the app's Settings it successfully runs on both an Administrator and standard user account. Furthermore, the default Terminal is set to "Windows Terminal" on both accounts. However, it still does not appear within the WinX menu. Other AEAs, such as python.exe and the Sysinternals Suite, are functioning as they should.

For now, I've hacked around the issue by adjusting the shortcuts at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group3 to point to wt.exe (weirdly enough, they don't reset as I thought they would due to the requirement for WinX shortcuts to have metadata hashes) but that doesn't seem to work for the (Admin) modes which is what I really used the WinX shortcut for (as you can see in the screenshot, I've already got Terminal pinned).

Originally created by @lzlrd on GitHub (Apr 3, 2022). ### Windows Terminal version 1.12.10393.0 ### Windows build number 10.0.22581.0 ### Other Software _No response_ ### Steps to reproduce Not really sure how to describe this other than the system froze up for some reason and I hard-rebooted. ### Expected Behavior For "Windows Terminal" to appear in the WinX menu instead of "Windows PowerShell". ### Actual Behavior "Windows PowerShell" appears in the WinX menu, which according to https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/12204 is supposed to fallback when `wt.exe` (via App Execution Aliases) is unavailable. Here's a visual of what I mean: ![*the screenshot*](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24303423/161404476-79370996-8fcd-4646-9d89-adc1642772c2.png) `wt.exe` did error out at first when being called from Run, but after performing a "Repair" from within the app's Settings it successfully runs on both an Administrator and standard user account. Furthermore, the default Terminal is set to "Windows Terminal" on both accounts. However, it still does not appear within the WinX menu. Other AEAs, such as `python.exe` and the Sysinternals Suite, are functioning as they should. For now, I've hacked around the issue by adjusting the shortcuts at `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group3` to point to `wt.exe` (weirdly enough, they don't reset as I thought they would due to the requirement for WinX shortcuts to have metadata hashes) but that doesn't seem to work for the `(Admin)` modes which is what I really used the WinX shortcut for (as you can see in the screenshot, I've already got Terminal pinned).
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