With this time-saving shortcut, you can open a new Terminal window from any folder simply by selecting it from the context menu.

Terminal users may find it useful to open the current Finder window in the Terminal <i>and</i> open the current Terminal working directory in the Finder. Some options.

With the Terminal, Windows has a common interface for Powershell, Command Prompt, and Azure Cloud Shell. This allows you to start the terminal directly with the command prompt.

When you open Windows Terminal, you see C:%USERPROFILE% as the default starting directory. You can change the default starting directory to the custom path you set in a few steps.

Choosing this item launches Terminal (or opens a new Terminal window if Terminal is already running) and changes the working directory to the selected folder.

Find "New Terminal at Folder" in the settings and click the box. Now, when you're in Finder, just right-click a folder and you're shown the open to open Terminal.

You can open Cmd, a traditional DOS (disk operating system) style command line, the newer Windows PowerShell environment or use a terminal emulator to connect to a command line on another computer.