If you are not satisfied with the default keyboard shortcut, Windows Terminal allows you to reassign it to other hotkey or even disable it. By default, Quake Mode uses the Win + ` key combination and launches in the upper half of the screen, thus simulating the console from the legendary Quake FP shooter. Windows Terminal 1.9 introduces a special Quake Mode that allows users to open a command prompt from any app in the operating system. It allows you to open a terminal in the upper half of the screen as a drop-down console.

To create a shortcut in Windows Terminal, write this to your configuration as a profile: powershell.You can change the keyboard shortcut for Quake Mode in Windows Terminal, which is a special feature that was introduced in version 1.9 of the application.

To start it from PowerShell as any other program: Start-Process -Verb RunAs wt.

To start it from commandline just type in wt which stands for Windows Terminal, of course.

Since it's a terminal, we can always find ways to play it with commandline: We're terminal users, we love doing everything with keyboards and commandline which is way cooler and more efficient than mortal clicking. Windows Terminal is a decent shell container for developers on Windows, but there is no manuscript tells how you can run it as administrator except for right-click on its icon select Run as administrator if you just get installed.

Run Windows Terminal as Administrator from Command Line (The Old Method)

The hotkey combination ctrl+ shift is to run something as Administrator, and win+ 1 is to run app pined to the first place of task bar.

Pin Windows Terminal to your task bar, say at 1st place.

In the old method I tried to geek it out by run Windows Terminal as Administrator from command line, but I've found another way to fire it up more easily. Run Windows Terminal as Administrator by Using Hotkey

Windows terminal shortcut command