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title: Advanced settings configuration in WSL
description: A guide to the wsl.conf and .wslconfig files used for configuring settings when running multiple Linux distributions on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
ms.date: 12/16/2024
ms.date: 05/07/2025
ms.topic: article
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| Key | Value | Default | Notes |
|:----|:----|:----|:----|
| `command` | string | `""` | A string of the command that you would like to run when the WSL instance starts. This command is run as the root user. e.g: `service docker start`. |
| `protectBinfmt` | boolean | `true` | Prevents WSL from generating systemd units when systemd is enabled. |

### GPU settings

wsl.conf section label: `[gpu]`

| Key | Value | Default | Notes |
|:----|:----|:----|:----|
| `enabled` | boolean | `true` | Allow Linux applications to access the Windows GPU via para-virtualization. |

### Time settings

wsl.conf section label: `[time]`

| Key | Value | Default | Notes |
|:----|:----|:----|:----|
| `useWindowsTimezone` | boolean | `true` | Setting this key will make WSL use and sync to the timezone set in Windows. |

### Example wsl.conf file

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