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"conhost.exe", which is the entity of the Windows console host

Microsoft also announced in its official documentation that it is phasing out the Windows console API, encouraging a shift to the Windows terminal. You can check the future image of the Windows terminal here, but in the official blog released by the company in mid-December, it was revealed that the default terminal application of Windows 11 will be replaced with the Windows terminal in the future.

So what is the default terminal app? Readers may think so. The answer, in a nutshell, is that you can choose the execution environment for command-line apps. In the past, the terminal application was hooked by the OS, but Microsoft has released this part and is advocating the Windows terminal as a recommended application.

Since there is little advantage in continuing to use the Windows console host as the default terminal app, if you frequently use the command line app, follow the steps below to change the settings.

The figure below shows the batch file executed from Explorer, but did you notice that the terminal application that executes the command line application has been switched?

However, when I ran the batch file with administrator privileges, the Windows console host started (Windows 11 version 21H2). This area will improve in the future.

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