Path and Name of exe file of windows terminal preview

Check in AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

Look for wt.exe or the "WindowsTerminalPreview" directory for the preview edition.

A more generic path is:

%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe

Try using where command in cmd. Like this where wt.exe, you should get full path (mine C:\Users\{user-name}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe

1. Open start menu and open Windows Terminal.
2. Click ctrl + alt + delete to open tasks manager.
3. Look for Windows Terminal task and unfold it.
4. Find Windows Terminal, click your right mouse button, click open file location. It will navigate WindowsTerminal.exe automatically.
5. That's it.

On my computer WindowsTerminal is installed at C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.9.1942.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe. Note that WindowsApps may be hidden and restricted, you should make sure it is visible and accessable.

Usually I'd recommend that this question be moved to Super User, since it isn't programming related. However, it's too old for that at this point.

wt.exe is what's known as an "Execution Alias", a "fake exe" method to open a Windows Store app (a.k.a. Metro, a.k.a. Universal, a.k.a. Modern, or whatever it's called today).

Both "Windows Terminal" and "Windows Terminal Preview" use the same wt.exe execution alias, since Preview is just a pre-release of the final version.

If you have both versions installed, you'll need to choose which one runs with wt.exe by going to "Manage App Execution Aliases" in the settings (just search for it in the Start menu). Switch off the one you don't want to be using; switch on the one you do.

I was able to execute wt.exe previously.

Now "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe" returns the following. The system cannot find the file XXXX\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe.

The wt.exe is in this directory as expected.

However, when I search for "Windows Terminal" and open it from the start menu it opens.

I believe this behavior is due to a change in my companies security GPO governing the execution of scripts. I am not certain of this yet.

I do not yet have more details but I am digging to find out more.