<story><title>Inside the Windows Console</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/07/10/windows-command-line-inside-the-windows-console/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_st</author><text>I tried using PowerShell or Hyper. But these are just so slow to start. So I&amp;#x27;m always coming back to cmd.exe. It is fast and serves my basic needs just perfect.&lt;p&gt;When I need more, I just type &amp;#x27;bash&amp;#x27;. And bash also starts faster than PowerShell or Hyper.&lt;p&gt;So I don&amp;#x27;t see why they now change WIN+X and Explorer to use PowerShell rather than cmd.exe.&lt;p&gt;Keep improving cmd.exe. But please don&amp;#x27;t make it bloated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philo23</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s actually an option in Settings to swap between Powershell and cmd.exe in the Win + X menu.&lt;p&gt;On top of that you can actually go in and customise it quite a bit to your own liking as it&amp;#x27;s just a folder inside your local app data: C:\Users\YourWindowsUsername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX</text></comment>
<story><title>Inside the Windows Console</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/07/10/windows-command-line-inside-the-windows-console/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_st</author><text>I tried using PowerShell or Hyper. But these are just so slow to start. So I&amp;#x27;m always coming back to cmd.exe. It is fast and serves my basic needs just perfect.&lt;p&gt;When I need more, I just type &amp;#x27;bash&amp;#x27;. And bash also starts faster than PowerShell or Hyper.&lt;p&gt;So I don&amp;#x27;t see why they now change WIN+X and Explorer to use PowerShell rather than cmd.exe.&lt;p&gt;Keep improving cmd.exe. But please don&amp;#x27;t make it bloated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electricEmu</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure how often you start and stop your shells, but start time is seldom a concern.&lt;p&gt;I enjoy you chose Hyper.js, which uses electron. I&amp;#x27;m not sure what speed you were expecting there. You might try ConEmu &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;conemu.github.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;conemu.github.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>