Windows 10: How to delete a Terminal Profile in Windows 11

WinClub · Dec 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM

If you spend a lot of time working in Windows Terminal, keeping your workspace organized is a good idea. Over time, you may have created many Windows Terminal profiles you no longer use, and deleting them can keep your workspace neat and clean. So, how do you delete a Terminal Profile in Windows 11? How […]

This article How to delete a Terminal Profile in Windows 11 first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

read more...

Brink · Dec 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Windows Terminal 1.12.1098 released to Windows 10 and Windows 11

This release was made available to insiders in the Dev and Beta channels on April 11 and is now generally available. Preinstallation Kit info A preinstallation kit is available for system integrators and OEMs interested in prepackaging Windows Terminal with a Windows image. More information is available in the DISM documentation on preinstallation. Users who do not intend to preinstall Windows Terminal should continue using the msixbundle distribution. Why are there so many packages? How do I choose? This version of Windows Terminal is distributed in two bundles, one of which works on Windows 10-11 and the other of which only works on Windows 11. The Windows 11 version is much smaller because we no longer need to work around a platform issue related to our dependencies.If you intend on using Terminal as an unpackaged application--that is, extracting the msix file--we recommend that you use the Win10 bundle. You will need the Visual C++ runtime redistributable. In addition, if you install the packaged version on either Windows 10 or Windows 11, it now depends on the Visual C++ Universal Runtime Package. Despite these distributions having different version numbers, they are built from the same code and there is no functional difference between them. If you install the Windows 10 verison on Windows 11, it will probably automatically upgrade itself to the Windows 11 version. It turns out that it is impossible to have two bundles with the same version number, so it has to be this way. Changes

The refreshed Windows 11 UI from the 1.13 preview builds is now available in 1.12!

Bug Fixes Appearance

Our Maximize/Restore button is now a fine round boi (#12660)

Accessibility

The profile list in the Settings UI now offers tooltips for long profile names (#12448)

We'll automatically focus the window renamer textbox when it opens (#12798)

High contrast will no longer result in a ridiculous and bad titlebar color (#12839)

When you delete a color scheme, we'll move focus back to the color scheme list (#12841)

When you delete a profile, we will re-focus the delete button automatically (#12558)

Two instances of huge debug log spam with a screen reader connected have been stamped out (#12698) (#12723)

Usability

We've added some text to the color schemes page indicating that it is for editing--not setting--color schemes (#12663)

We're working to refine how color schemes are set and edited, so stay tuned for future improvements!

The retro terminal effect (as well as other shaders) will now work on pre-D3D11 hardware! (#12677)

Terminal will once again render properly when you move between different-DPI displays (#12713) (#12749)

Resizing the window while a background color or underline is displayed will no longer smear it across the whole screen (#12637) plus a fix for a huge crash that PR introduced (#12853)

It took us three releases to get it right, but we've finally solved the issue where we'd punch a hole straight through the Terminal when a dialog appeared (#12840)

Reliability

Typing an invalid background image path into the Settings UI will no longer send Terminal to a farm upstate (#11542) (thanks @serd2011!)

There was an issue on Windows 11 where Terminal would queue up billions of animations while the screen was off; it will now no longer do so (#12820)

We've fixed crashes in ProposeCommandline (#12838), Monarch::_GetPID (#12856) and other parts of WT's RPC infrastructure (#12825)

On Windows 10, the settings UI will no longer sometimes crash on close (we've updated to a new build of WinUI 2 for the fix!) (#12847)

Miscellaneous

Windows will no longer reject certain Terminal updates/reinstalls due to "differing package content" (#12779)

Fragments can once again override the names of generated profiles (#12627)

An issue from the 1073 series, where you could not upgrade the bundle using DISM, has been resolved (#12819)

As a result, our bundle version is now over three thousand!

@dmezh contributed some wording changes to the text about transparency/opacity (#12592) (#12727) (thanks!)

Click to expand...

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/termina.../v1.12.10982.0 Windows Terminal - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store

Brink · Dec 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 for Windows 10 scheduled for Feb. 11

Terminal v0.9 is scheduled for 2/11

This is the last release that will have new features before the v1 release

Subsequent releases are strictly for bug fixes and polishing

Features include:

Command line arguments

new-tab, split-pane, focus-tab

Examples:

wt -d . (opens a new Terminal in the current working directory)

wt -p "profile name" (opens a new Terminal with the given profile)

wt; new-tab -p "profile name"; split-pane -V -p "profile name" (demonstrated below)

Accessibility improvements

Community News

One Dev Minute Videos

Kayla has recorded some One Dev Minute videos about the Terminal

Three have been released so far:

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...20741409837056

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...26568349196288

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...51369883832324

Terminal v0.9 Work

Terminal Roadmap
Click to expand...

Source: Windows Terminal Status Updates . Issue #3600 . microsoft/terminal . GitHub

Tweet

— Twitter API (@user) View on Twitter
Click to expand...

Brink · Dec 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM

Windows Terminal 1.13.1143 released to Windows 10 and Windows 11

This release brings many of the preview changes in Windows Terminal 1.13 to the Stable channel. Notably: IMPORTANT This version was made available to the Dev External flighting ring (Windows Insiders) first, and will be released to general availability one or two weeks later depending on its reliability.

You can now configure a profile to automatically launch as Administrator.

There is a new action, "Restore last closed pane or tab," that will do roughly what it says on the tin.

You can now change the bell sound with the profile.bellSound setting

Terminal has learned to save and restore your last opened window, position and all! Check it out in Settings > Startup.

Note that the new text rendering engine is not included in this Stable build. Please see the following release notes for additional details:

Windows Terminal Preview v1.13.1098

Windows Terminal Preview v1.13.1073

Windows Terminal Preview v1.13.10395.0

Windows Terminal Preview v1.13.10336.0

As a reminder, Terminal 1.12 is the last version of Windows Terminal that supports Windows 19H1 or 19H2. That version of windows is going out of support soon, so you may want to consider upgrading. Preinstallation Kit info A preinstallation kit is available for system integrators and OEMs interested in prepackaging Windows Terminal with a Windows image. More information is available in the DISM documentation on preinstallation. Users who do not intend to preinstall Windows Terminal should continue using the msixbundle distribution. Why are there so many packages? How do I choose?This version of Windows Terminal is distributed in two bundles, one of which works on Windows 10-11 and the other of which only works on Windows 11. The Windows 11 version is much smaller because we no longer need to work around a platform issue related to our dependencies.If you intend on using Terminal as an unpackaged application--that is, extracting the msix file--we recommend that you use the Win10 bundle. You will need the Visual C++ runtime redistributable. In addition, if you install the packaged version on either Windows 10 or Windows 11, it now depends on the Visual C++ Universal Runtime Package. Despite these distributions having different version numbers, they are built from the same code and there is no functional difference between them. If you install the Windows 10 verison on Windows 11, it will probably automatically upgrade itself to the Windows 11 version. It turns out that it is impossible to have two bundles with the same version number, so it has to be this way. Also included in this release are some bug fixes and changed backported from 1.14: Changes UI

@dansmor7 contributed some visual changes to the tabs, scrollbar, new tab button, caption buttons, color picker, settings UI, command palette, and search box to move us closer to the Windows 11 design language. Really just about any WinUI surface we have, it's been polished up! (thanks @dansmor7!) (#12913) (#12916) (#12973) (#13083)

RadioButtons in the settings UI have been replaced with ComboBoxes. This gives an added bonus to keyboard and screen reader users, and makes it easier to navigate through and change these settings. (#12833)

Interactivity

Terminal is now aware of toggled state for Caps Lock, Scroll Lock, and Num Lock (#12823) (thanks @matkaas!)

Settings

The trimBlockSelection global setting now defaults to true (#12737)

Terminal now ignores newTab actions with a profile index greater than the number of profiles (#11621)

bellSound is now in the schema (#13035) (thanks @pizzaz93!)

Bug Fixes

Terminal should be able to find Cascadia Mono... Third time's the charm? (#12904)

commandline in profile.defaults should no longer override the commandlines of profiles that specify cmd.exe or powershell.exe. (#12906)

Get rid of a memory leak in onecore interactivity (#12340)

Screen readers can now read some settings in the UI better (#13032)

Replace "acrylic" with "acrylic material" for localization purposes (#12505)

The "close tab" button color now matches the tab text color (#13018) (thanks @ianjoneill!)

Reliability

Fix a crash when deleting the last profile in the settings UI (#13044)

Click to expand...

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/termina.../v1.13.11431.0 Microsoft Store download: Windows Terminal - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store

Windows 10: How to delete a Terminal Profile in Windows 11

How to delete a Terminal Profile in Windows 11

How to delete a Terminal Profile in Windows 11

How to delete a Terminal Profile in Windows 11

How to delete a Terminal Profile in Windows 11 - Similar Threads - delete Terminal Profile

Windows 11 - User Profile Deleted

Windows 11 - User Profile Deleted

How to change Color Scheme for a Profile in Windows Terminal

How to Export Text from a Profile in Windows Terminal

How to delete user profile in windows

How to delete user profile in windows

How to set Windows Terminal as the default terminal application in Windows 11

How to change cursor shape for a Windows Terminal profile

How to add a New Profile in Windows Terminal