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The other thing I want to show you is the new Windows Terminal from Microsoft.

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To install this,

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you need to go to the Microsoft Store, because this is the only place

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where it is currently being delivered or offered, and just do a search

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for windows terminal and you'll get the Terminal App to come up here.

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Now, I've already installed it,

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so you don't have to sit and watch me download an application.

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You'll go ahead and install it, I'm just going go ahead and launch it from here.

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I have not added it to my shortcuts yet, so I have to‑‑‑

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this is a nice and easy way to do it.

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Let's go ahead and pop this fullscreen here.

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Now,

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what you see here, by default, is a tab. It may be a little

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hard to read, the font may be a little small, we can adjust

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that later if we need to.

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This is Windows PowerShell.

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If we look at the drop‑down list here, there are other types of

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tabs that we can add here, like a cmd window.

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There's also something here for Azure Cloud Shell,

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which I'm not going to get into because I don't have Azure set up,

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but there's also PowerShell.

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This is PowerShell 7, as you can see there.

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Now, I've already made a change to the settings file.

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Let me show you how that works.

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You come back down here and go to Settings.

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Now,

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a lot of the settings are already set for you, and you

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don't really have to do too much.

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The settings file is a JSON file.

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Normally,

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you're going to have something like VS Code installed on your computer. So

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when you go to settings, VS Code will open up the JSON file,

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which is a whole lot easier to work with than Notepad,

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which is the only thing I have available to me.

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The JSON file is a little complicated,

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and you may need some help if you're really needing to fine tune some stuff.

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The only change you really have to worry about, if you need to,

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is just maybe changing the font size.

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And so I went down here and found that PowerShell item, this is the

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profile, all these tabs are referred to as profiles in Windows

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Terminal, and I just added this element, fontSize.

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It's a JSON file, it is case sensitive,

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and I changed the fontSize to 20. Again, there are a lot of settings that you

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can configure for this, you can make it transparent, you can add graphics, it's

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really a cool thing that you can do, but for right now, all I care about is just

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making it a little bit easier to read.

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Once you make the change and save the file,

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the change is immediate and it will be reflected in the Windows

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Terminal app. So you can have as many of these windows open as you

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want, and when you're done you can just close them. Same thing, I

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can just type a dir command, clear the screen, cd to Windows, and

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you do have tab completion, by the way, in PowerShell.

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So if I wanted to do sys and hit Tab, I can go to the

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System32 directory. Go back to the root.

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All right,

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so that all works the same way, it's just nice with the Windows Terminal

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that I can have multiple PowerShell sessions open because I often need to

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have Windows PowerShell open and PowerShell 7 open,

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and I've got some other customizations done for additional tabs, as well.

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I think if you play with the terminal,

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you'll like it. When you're done, you can either close it like this or if

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you are in a profile, type exit, that closes that profile.

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So that is a look at the different ways that you can access PowerShell. Let's go back to the slides and wrap up our lesson.