Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 start menu

Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by vetinari on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:36AM (#33730614)

In 11, the terminal app can be set as default console app, so you won't see conhost.exe, ever. That's not possible in 10.

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Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by devmor on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:20AM (#33733064)

That's a very marginal improvement, since the only time you'd see conhost in 10 now is when a program explicitly launches it.

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Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by vetinari on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:37AM (#33733244)

and when you launch any random .bat file.

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Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by devmor on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:21PM (#33738066)

Or you just change your default program for batch files.

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Re:Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 s... by vetinari on Friday November 25, 2022 @05:49AM (#33741156)

batch files are handled by cmd.exe, not by conhost.exe. Cmd.exe in turn opens default console. Similarly for powershell, python, farmanager and other console-based apps.

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