microsoft / microsoft/terminal

encountered errors while loading user settings

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Area-Settings Issue-Bug Product-Terminal
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Description

### Windows Terminal version

1.20.11781.0

### Windows build number

10.0.26100.1586

### Other Software

_No response_

### Steps to reproduce

launch cmd.exe

### Expected Behavior

No errors, how do I make this go away?

### Actual Behavior

This is what started happening to day on one of my Windows 11 machines and it keeps happening each time I open a new terminal...

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/003c6c6f-fba5-4275-ae33-c96ef5a4a5b8)

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Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with Windows Terminal 1.20.11781.0 on Windows 11 build 10.0.26100.1586 by launching cmd.exe. Review the attached screenshot and determine which user-settings errors recur when opening a new terminal; done means identifying the cause and preventing those errors.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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