Mongo shell fail to launch

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I am just trying to install the mongo shell to begin to play around with the interface. I downloaded the files and added the \bin to the PATH variable of my windows desktop, but the terminal closes immediately after opening when I try to run it. I am on the M0 free tier, and I know that some features are limited, but I thought that this would be something that I would have access to. Any suggestions on what I could try to get this working would be much appreciated!

2

What command you have issued?
Are you trying to connect to your cluster or local mongo instance
Does it work with simple commands
mongo
or
mongo --version if this does not work cd to the mongo/bin directory and try

3

I would like to connect to my cluster. The terminal opens and closes before I have the chance to type anything at all

4

What exactly you mean by terminal?
how you are trying to connect to mongodb?

You have to run the command at Windows cmd prompt

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C:\Users\Owner>mongo --version
MongoDB shell version v4.4.1
Build Info: {
    "version": "4.4.1",
    "gitVersion": "ad91a93a5a31e175f5cbf8c69561e788bbc55ce1",
    "modules": [],
    "allocator": "tcmalloc",
    "environment": {
        "distmod": "windows",
        "distarch": "x86_64",
        "target_arch": "x86_64"
    }
}

This is the result that I get when I run the mongo --version command. I was trying to run the application in the screenshot above by double clikcing on it, and it would just open and then close

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You cannot connect by double clicking mongo.exe

Do you have the connect string to connect to your cluster?
Please run the command at Windows cmd prompt
Something like below:
C:\Users>mongo “mongodb+srv://myuser:mypasswd@sandbox.xyz.mongodb.net/test”

Above onnect string is for example only taken from mongodb university course.It varies depending on where your cluster is hosted/exists