Settings Opens Visual Studio! #4544

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opened 2026-01-30 23:50:07 +00:00 by claunia · 4 comments
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Originally created by @asrvstv5 on GitHub (Oct 18, 2019).

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Windows build number: [run `[Environment]::OSVersion` for powershell, or `ver` for cmd]
Windows Terminal version (if applicable):

Any other software?

Steps to reproduce

Click on the drop down menu and click settings

Expected behavior

Settigns window should open

Actual behavior

It launches Visual Studio 2017

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@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2019):

That’s because Visual Studio is your JSON file editor. Change that, and it won’t launch Visual Studio any more.

@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Oct 18, 2019): That’s because Visual Studio is your JSON file editor. Change that, and it won’t launch Visual Studio any more.
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@foreachthing commented on GitHub (Jan 23, 2020):

@DHowett This is no help at all!
Change it to what?! Notepad++ ???

@foreachthing commented on GitHub (Jan 23, 2020): @DHowett This is no help at all! Change it to what?! Notepad++ ???
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jan 23, 2020):

@foreachthing You can change it to literally whatever you want - Notepad++, Vs Code, Sublime Text, Atom, Notepad, Wordpad, whatever. Our settings are currently implemented as a .json file, so clicking "settings" will attempt to open the settings file with whatever the default json editor is on your machine. When you install Visual Studio, VS configures itself as the default editor.

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jan 23, 2020): @foreachthing You can change it to literally whatever you want - Notepad++, Vs Code, Sublime Text, Atom, Notepad, Wordpad, whatever. Our settings are currently implemented as a `.json` file, so clicking "settings" will attempt to open the settings file with whatever the default `json` editor is on your machine. When you install Visual Studio, VS configures itself as the default editor.
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@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Feb 21, 2020):

You can change your json editor to whatever you want. Terminal doesn't control that. Sorry.

@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Feb 21, 2020): You can change your json editor to whatever you want. Terminal doesn't control that. Sorry.
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Reference: starred/terminal#4544