Script causes Powershell to open in Console Host instead of Windows Terminal

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Script causes Powershell to open in Console Host instead of Windows Terminal

Kanishk Nishar 0

I am trying to run a script that opens a powershell instance for every sub-directory and runs the command whisperPath

Here's the code:

Get-ChildItem -Directory -Recurse | ForEach-Object { Start-Process -FilePath "pwsh.exe" -ArgumentList "-NoExit -Command Set-Location -LiteralPath '$($_.FullName)'; whisperPath" }

When I run the code on my desktop, each instance of Powershell opens in Windows Terminal successfully but that is not the case on my laptop which opens each Powershell window in Windows Console Host despite WT being the default terminal manager on my laptop:

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Device name	Lance
Processor	AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics            2.10 GHz
Installed RAM	16.0 GB (15.3 GB usable)
Device ID	9E1759C8-2697-492C-A8BC-D1188CE5ECB1
Product ID	00356-02656-70053-AAOEM
System type	64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
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Edition	Windows 10 Home
Version	22H2
Installed on	‎27-‎08-‎2023
OS build	19045.3448
Experience	Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19044.1000.0

Luis Arias 8,621 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2023-09-27T16:14:41.53+00:00

Hi,

I think you can check your environment variables for pwsh.exe, In your windows go to your system variable and check path. Additional when you run in execute "pwsh.exe" It is still open on Windows Console Host . Isn't it?

Luis
Kanishk Nishar 0 Reputation points

2023-09-28T12:57:19.5966667+00:00

Hello Luis

I am not sure what you are referring to so here are two values that may be relevant:

When I type pwsh in address bar or start it from Windows Start Menu, it starts in Windows Terminal. I also opened pwsh's Properties which showed that using legacy mode was disabled.
Kanishk Nishar 0 Reputation points

2023-10-02T10:46:57.7633333+00:00

I managed to fix the issue by reinstalling Powershell while copying settings.json from my desktop just to be safe. Don't know what the issue was but the script works properly now.