Terminal: Newly installed Windows Terminal - error 0xd000003a when launching powershell.exe

Created on 2 May 2020  路  3Comments  路  Source: microsoft/terminal

Environment

Windows build number: Windows 10.0.18363.778
Windows Terminal version: 0.11.1191.0

Any other software?
No, this is a clean installation of Windows 10

Steps to reproduce

  1. Install new Windows 10 Professional 1909 64-bit
  2. Open Microsoft Store, search fro Windows Terminal
  3. Install Windows Terminal
  4. Run Windows Terminal from Start menu

Expected behavior

Windows Terminal should run the first time correctly.

Actual behavior

Error message is displayed: [error 0xd000003a] when launching `powershell.exe']

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Most helpful comment

/dup #4750

This seems to happen in virtual machines more often than on real ones. You can work around it by launching a normal console application before launching Terminal. This should only be necessary one time.

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/dup #4750

This seems to happen in virtual machines more often than on real ones. You can work around it by launching a normal console application before launching Terminal. This should only be necessary one time.

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

Yes, this was a VM.

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