How to Run Popular Windows Binaries in WSL

May 15, 2024•39 words

Many popular binaries in Windows can be executed from WSL (eg. Ubuntu WSL). The way to call them from WSL is adding .exe to executable names. Some popular binaries:

powershell.exe
notepad.exe
explorer.exe
calc.exe
etc.

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