Installing the Microsoft Store version of Windows Terminal via the winget command-line

jpluimers

May 26

In the continuing series of Chocolatey/Scoop/winget related posts, this one is about Windows Terminal.

There are basically two ultimate sources you can install it from:

The Microsoft Store at [Wayback1/Wayback2/Archive1/Archive2] aka.ms/terminal/Get Windows Terminal - Microsoft Store manually, or via winget:
- ```
winget install --id 9N0DX20HK701 --source msstore --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements --silent
```
GitHub at [Wayback/Archive] microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!, manually, or via winget or Chocolatey:
- ```
winget install --id=Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e
```
- ```
choco upgrade microsoft-windows-terminal
```

You can configure the Microsoft Store to automatically install updates as per [Wayback/Archive] Turn on automatic app updates (on my system this was the default):

Microsoft Store - Auto-Updates is turned on by default

Select the Start ⊞ screen, then select Microsoft Store.

In Microsoft Store at the upper right, select the account menu (the three dots) and then select Settings.

Under App updates, set Update apps automatically to On.

As a backgrounder, here some articles on Windows Terminal, ConPTY and the Windows Console from the [Wayback/Archive] DevBlogs - Microsoft Developer Blogs: