term and ansi-term on windows

Hi, it's a while i'm trying to make the native version of emacs in windows (not the cygwin one) run term or ansi-term but i always get the "spawning child process: invalid argument". i know that using the cygwin version solve this problem but it has other disadvantages. Do you know any solution or a workaround to this issue? EDIT: maybe it'll turn out i'm entering the wrong path or something else but [https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/running-shells-in-emacs-overview](https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/running-shells-in-emacs-overview) suggest that "out-of-the-box" term and ansi-term don't work in windows. my question could also be "how can i make them work"?

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Which program are you trying to run in the terminal? Have you confirmed whether you have that program installed? If it's not an absolute filename then the `PATH` inherited by Emacs (see `process-environment`) must include the relevant directory.

term and ansi-term expect bash or zsh or something like that.. for example, if I do ansi-term, it expects /bin/bash in the path. Naturally, Windows doesn't have /bin/bash, so what do you want emacs to run instead?

in case you're not being rethorical, either cmd or powershell are ok

PowerShell is a terminal emulator, not a shell like bash. PowerShell runs a shell, but is not a shell.