diff --git a/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/VsDevCmdGenerator.cpp b/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/VsDevCmdGenerator.cpp
index 2b3f04e277d..f4e5dd0298a 100644
--- a/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/VsDevCmdGenerator.cpp
+++ b/src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/VsDevCmdGenerator.cpp
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ std::wstring VsDevCmdGenerator::GetProfileCommandLine(const VsSetupConfiguration
     commandLine.reserve(256);
     commandLine.append(LR"(cmd.exe /k ")");
     commandLine.append(GetDevCmdScriptPath(instance));
+    // The "-startdir" parameter will prevent "vsdevcmd" from automatically
+    // setting the shell path so the path in the profile will be used instead.
+    commandLine.append(LR"(" -startdir=none)");
 #if defined(_M_ARM64)
     commandLine.append(LR"(" -arch=arm64 -host_arch=x64)");
 #elif defined(_M_AMD64)