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How to Fix & Solve VSCode Terminal Not Working & Opening Full Tutorial in 2026-27
Feb 28, 2026
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Hello guys, in this video I'll show you,
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I will show you how to fix the problem
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in VS Code if your terminal is not
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working and opening. So in 2026-27, this
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is the latest tutorial.
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So if you open your VS Code and probably
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normally you open the terminal by going
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to this menu option and click on new
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terminal.
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So in my case terminal is working
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perfectly, but in your case if you if it
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is throwing some kind of error, if the
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terminal is not opening, the very first
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solution is that you don't need to go to
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your task manager.
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And then you need to search for this
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Once you open the VS Code, you just need
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to search for this code process.
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So you need to actually close this VS
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Code from this. So you just need to
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right click and select this option end
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task and completely turn off VS Code. So
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as soon as you do this, your VS Code
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will completely turn off and now simply
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restart the VS Code.
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Normally
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if you do this, normally this will fix
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the problem.
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Again you
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just select go to terminal. If this fix
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the problem, then it's good. If it
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doesn't fix the problem, then there is a
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second solution here.
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You simply
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press control shift B
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and this will open this command palette
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and simply search for
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user setting
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or you can simply go to
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right here which is view
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and
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preferences you need to go to. I think
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it is inside the
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Yeah, you can simply open control shift
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B.
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Simply type user settings.
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Or you can simply
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select this option user settings and
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right here you need to search for this
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property which is
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terminal.integrated.default
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profile.
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So if you simply search for this
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property inside the search bar
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terminal.integrated.default
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profile, just make sure that it's set to
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command prompt.
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If it's set to any other option like
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null, PowerShell, Git Bash, simply
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select this option command prompt and
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select this option. That's all.
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And after that, hopefully this will fix
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the problem. Or you can also open user
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settings.json file as well. And right
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here you can even do that property.
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If you want to do this manually, so
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you can paste this same property which
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is terminal.
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integrated.default
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profile.windows.
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So if you set this property to command
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prompt, this will also solve the problem
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to you. So
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you can do this both the ways.
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So if it doesn't solve the problem, then
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you need to delete
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this property.
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If it's set to a wrong path.
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So inside this JSON property, if it's
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set to a wrong path, you need to delete
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this property. So
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and then restart. If it doesn't then
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you basically open the VS Code
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using administrative privileges. So
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right click run as administrator
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and then open the VS Code like this and
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then again select terminal. This will
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also will solve the problem. If it
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doesn't solve the problem, then simply
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check if you are running any sort of
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antivirus.
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So
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you need to disable that antivirus and
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then run VS Code.
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If it doesn't solve the problem, then
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you need to go to this path.
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You wherever VS Code is installed. So go
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to C directory
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and whatever is your username.
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So I think it's normally is present
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inside users.
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So whatever is the username, so in my
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case it's ASUS and then you need to go
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to this folder app data.
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And then go to local.
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Sorry, it is this folder you need to
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roaming folder.
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And simply search for this VS Code.
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Sorry, just search for code code folder.
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So here all the files are related to VS
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Code. Simply go to this folder
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and
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you need to simply select the
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settings.json
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file. So this file will be present right
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here.
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So if you see
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this is actually the file here
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preferences
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.json file. So you need to delete this
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file completely
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because this will reset everything. So
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this actually is the file where it
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contains all the settings. So you need
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to delete this file
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preferences.settings.json.
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So delete this file and then restart
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the VS Code.
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Or if it also doesn't solve the problem,
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then
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you need to
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simply
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VS Code right click
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open file location.
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Again right click open file location. So
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wherever VS Code is located, so this
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will actually
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tell you the exact location where VS
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Code is there. So what you need to do,
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you just need to
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reinstall VS Code. So completely
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uninstall. So you can basically
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run this setup uninstall. So this will
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completely uninstall VS Code and its all
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its components. So simply select yes and
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download a fresh copy of VS Code from
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their official website.
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So this will 100% solve the problem for
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you.
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And that's terminal will start working
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for you. So
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simply go to Google and download a fresh
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copy after deleting. If it doesn't solve
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the problem. So kindly tell me in the
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comment section which
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solution worked for you. If you like the
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