How is it possible that I have been fully unaware of Windows Terminal? Where has this been all my life? It is interesting that as I spend more time working with AI agents/tools that I've been leveraging command line interface (CLI) tools more and more.
I've been juggling links to CMD and Powershell in my task bar for ages and guess I never really looked deeper into the options available to me since forever. Microsoft first announced Windows Terminal at Build in 2019 and promoted it to the default system-wide terminal emulator in Windows 11 22H2 (2022).
If you are still using CMD or one of a number of Powershell links you should give this a try.
Note that I noticed it defaults to Windows Powershell (like version 5.x) not Powershell 7.x so you will most likely want to modify the default application to use most recent Powershell or CMD.
If you want more control (especially over which applications show in the dropdown to select shells to open you can edit this directly using the "Open JSON file" option. This will open up the settings JSON file in your favorite editor. From here, you can edit (add/delete) listings in the Profiles : List elements.