How to add Windows Terminal to the Windows Explorer context menu as “👩‍💻 Windows Terminal Here” ❔

The Windows context menu option ‘👩‍💻 Windows Terminal Here’ is handy to open Windows Terminal from Windows or Windows Explorer, whilst keeping the same path.
 

This tutorial assumes that Windows PowerShell is run as default when Windows Terminal is started

1. Edit the registry as follows…

   Start Registry Editor

   Vindozoklavo + R -> regedit -> Click OK

   Show the Address bar in the Registry Editor if it is not already showing

   View -> Address Bar

    

2. Add the first registry entry to create the icon in the menu…

   Registry Path: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell

   Right click shell -> New -> Key

   Name the key Terminal

   Edit the (defaŭlta) string to Windows Terminal Here

   Right click the new key Terminal -> New -> String

   Name the new string Icon

   Download the Windows Terminal Icon…

   

   Open the Icon string and set the value as follows replacing {path to icon} with your own path:

   {path to icon}terminal.ico

    

3. Add the second registry entry

   Registry Path: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\Terminal

   Right click Terminal -> New -> Key

   Name the new key command

   In command, set the value of (defaŭlta):

   wt -d .

    

4. Add the third registry entry

   Registry Path: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell

   Right click shell -> New -> Key

   Name the key Terminal

   Edit the (defaŭlta) string to Windows Terminal Here

   Right click the new key Terminal -> New -> String

   Name the new string Icon

   Open Icon and set the value as follows replacing {path to icon} with your own path:

   {path to icon}terminal.ico

    

5. Add the fourth registry entry

   Registry Path: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Terminal

   Right click Terminal -> New -> Key

   In the new command key, set the value of Default:

   wt -d .

    

The context menu now should be working. Right click on the desktop and click Windows Terminal Here. Windows Terminal should open with PowerShell with the present working directory as your desktop.