Normally, to start Windows Terminal, you would right-click and choose Open in Terminal, or launch it from Start / Search, or use Win + R and run wt or wt.exe, or hit Win + X and pick Terminal.
All of these start a new Terminal window from outside the current one.
But in this post, I’ll show you how to open a new Windows Terminal instance directly from the Terminal you already have open. No context switching, no leaving your current session.
▶️This is a short tutorial, but maybe you want to watch the video version instead?
Open Windows Terminal from Command Line
You may have already figured it out from the into how to launch a new Terminal instance.
You can just run wt.exe, or even simpler, just wt.
You could also just press CTRL + SHIFT + N if you don’t feel like typing.
One thing worth knowing is that if your current instance is running as Administrator, the new one will also start as Administrator.
That’s it 🥳! Happy building 💜
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