The desktop app issues on Windows — page 2
Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:windows and area:desktop.
1,503 issues · 479 open · 1,024 resolved (68%) · first seen Feb 9, 2026
Is this getting better or worse?
This class of problem is still growing. 891 new reports in the last 90 days vs 596 in the 90 before — +49%. The open backlog peaked at 479 in 2026-08 and sits at 479 today.
Derived by counting each matching issue from its creation date until it closed. First-party
computation over the anthropics/claude-code tracker — the trend is not published
anywhere upstream.
Which builds report this
645 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 132 releases. Heaviest reporters:
- Claude Code v2.1.229
- Claude Code v2.1.209
- Claude Code v2.1.246
- Claude Code v2.1.170
- Claude Code v2.1.227
- Claude Code v2.1.237
- Claude Code v2.1.222
- Claude Code v2.1.111
Report volume, not a defect count: an issue can mention a build without that build having caused the failure. Versions come from the version string in the bug-report template, matched against real published tags.
Do these get fixed?
Median time to close is 34 days across 1,024 closures. Of the 1,024 closures with a recorded reason, 21% were closed as completed and 807 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-08.
Workarounds reported by the community
445 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:
- [FEATURE] Add font size adjustment for Code tab in Claude Desktop
- …rl+- also do not work inside the Code tab. The only current workaround is to change the entire Windows display scaling, which affects all applications system-wide and is not a practical solution. Proposed Solution Please…
Found in the description of #48237 · resolved - [Feature Request] Native WSL Remote Integration for Claude Code Desktop on Windows
- …l: wrong shell, broken paths, toolchain mismatches. The SSH workaround is too clunky for daily use. VS Code's Remote - WSL solved this years ago. Claude Code Desktop deserves the same. This would unlock the Desktop UI fo…
Found in the thread of #49933 · resolved - Claude Desktop (Windows): provide a way to disable the bundled Cowork background service (CoworkVMService) for users who don't use Cowork
- …esktop is not an option for me — I use it daily. - The only workarounds are user-hostile : take ownership of and force , or schedule a task at logon. Both may break on package updates and feel wrong on a system level. Se…
Found in the description of #57371 · still open - [Regression] Desktop app: session time-range filter only appears when Group by is set to State
- …th its last value, unreachable from any UI. is not a usable workaround Worth flagging since it is the obvious suggestion: in code mode the State renderer buckets sessions into flat / / … lists with no project headers. So…
Found in the thread of #78775 · still open - [FEATURE] Allow configuring VM bundle (vhdx) storage location
- …ve. NTFS junctions ( ) fail. There is no reliable user-side workaround. For me, it's quite unconvenient. I have to move other files to D: to continue use Cowork. - OS: Windows 11 - Latest Claude Desktop Proposed Solution…
Found in the description of #56089 · still open
Excerpts are quoted from the linked issue so you can judge relevance before opening it. Threads that only ask for a workaround, or report that there is none, are excluded. These are community suggestions, not official guidance from Anthropic — read the full thread before applying one.
Matching issues 101–200
Ranked by community engagement (reactions weighted over comments). Listing the top 300 of 1,503 matches; the statistics above cover all 1,503.
- Opus 4.7 ([1m] variant) capped at 200K context in Claude Code Desktop on Max plan
- [BUG] Desktop app: chat window auto-scrolls to bottom during streaming even when user has scrolled up
- [BUG] ssh ProxyCommand not working on claude desktop code tab on windows, ProxyJump not supported on windows or Mac
- [BUG] Cowork stuck on "Setting up Claude's workspace" — Windows 10 Pro
- Windows: app window is always-on-top with no way to disable it
- [BUG] Windows Desktop 2.1.227: cross-session send_message to a paused session is never delivered to the model, leaving the session in a permanent phantom turn
- Desktop: expose a persistent "keep sidebar open" setting; the pinned state (Ctrl+B) is undiscoverable and undocumented
- [BUG] Cowork shows "requires a more recent installation" on Windows 11 after fresh reinstall of latest version (1.13576.0)
- [BUG] Claude Desktop (Windows) silently kills run_in_background tasks after 15-min idle — WarmLifecycle taskkills the embedded CLI process tree
- [BUG] BUG: Cowork Linux sandbox fails to start on Windows — persists after all Hyper-V service fixes
- [Preview] Support multiple tabs for navigating different pages simultaneously
- [BUG] Send/submit arrow button missing from Code tab input area (Windows desktop app)
- [BUG] Cross-session messages are displayed in the target session but never enqueued (model never sees them)
- [BUG] v2.1.206 silently broke unattended scheduled tasks: runs no longer inherit permissions.defaultMode, fall back to Manual, and per-task mode has no programmatic or bulk control
- [BUG] spawn ENAMETOOLONG on Claude Code (Desktop) - all models, Windows only, works fine on Mac
- [BUG] Cowork microphone input cuts off after ~2 seconds on x64 — works fine on ARM64
- [FEATURE] Opus 4.8 (1M context) model option disappeared from the model picker
- [BUG] Enter inserts a newline instead of submitting; keybindings.json override is ignored
- Cowork scheduled tasks on Windows leave claude.exe processes alive after completion, causing memory accumulation
- [FEATURE] Desktop Recents to enumerate ~/.claude/projects/ directly.
- [BUG] Scheduled tasks fire on cron but are not visible in Desktop UI (1.5354.0, Windows)
- [BUG] Claude Desktop cannot connect to Claude in Chrome extension in any mode with "No tab available" on Windows
- [FEATURE] Expose all API-available models in Claude Code Desktop model picker
- [BUG] Claude Desktop MSIX Installation Fails with HRESULT 0x80073CF6 on Windows 11
- [BUG] Scrolling Claude Response with Keyboard Stopped Working
- [BUG] ARM64 Snapdragon X, Windows 11 26200, v1.1.4173, app starts but no BrowserWindow created
- [BUG] [CRASH] {solution proposed} Shipped MSIX has no AppxMetadata\CodeIntegrity.cat — vk_swiftshader.dll blocked by Code Integrity, AppX container destroyed (0x3CFC) **Needs packaging (and something to protect data from getting nuked.)
- [BUG] /remote-control crashes after hibernation: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'session_url')
- [BUG] Custom connector tools never reach new conversations since Desktop v1.17377.1 (directory connectors fine)
- [BUG] Windows desktop app won't launch after package upgrade: "Another program is currently using this file" (0x80070020) -- old version's AppX container silo pinned by an orphaned elevated Claude Code child process
- Code-tab Customize -> Skills is missing skills that are present in ~/.claude/skills (non-deterministic; / menu and engine load them all)
- [FEATURE] Custom system prompt support in desktop app and VS Code extension (parity with CLI --system-prompt-file)
- [BUG] CCD desktop silently drops sessions on relaunch and has no in-app recovery; CLI --resume produces sessions invisible to the sidebar
- [BUG] Active session auto-archives within seconds of window focus loss (Windows)
- [BUG] Remote SSH session crashes immediately with exit code 1 on Max/OAuth accounts (ccd-cli 2.1.128)
- Sessions disappear from recent conversations on desktop app restart (Windows)
- Model picker selects Opus 4.7 1M when choosing Opus 4.7 (200k), possibly after compaction
- [BUG] Schedule entry missing from desktop sidebar (present on web)
- [BUG] 1.3036.0: Cowork sessions crash with "Claude Code process exited with code 1" on Windows 11 Home
- [BUG] Claude Desktop injects inference-only CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN that breaks /remote-control
- [BUG] UI "View diff / Commit changes" bar does not refresh after commits made via Bash tool
- [BUG] Browser pane read tools (screenshot/read_page) permanently blocked — "per-action approval" required but approval card never appears (Auto mode, allowlisted site)
- [BUG] MSIX Installation failure: AddPackage failed with HRESULT 0x80073CF9
- [Windows] AppX update/relaunch fails with "another program is using this file" (0x80073d02) — CoworkVMService (cowork-svc.exe) holds package file lock
- [MODEL] Severe multi-symptom degradation since 2026-06-08 on Opus 4.8 (Desktop app): ignores CLAUDE.md, bypasses permission prompts, hallucinates, refuses doable tasks, writes files unprompted
- Sonnet 4.6 routes every request to long-context tier on Claude Desktop 2.1.149 (429 'Usage credits required')
- Desktop rewind fails on conversation-only sessions: not on active chain (chain size 2/N)
- [BUG] Claude Desktop "Code" tab: pre-existing CLI/VS Code sessions invisible — local_*.json index entries never created for them (reopen of #29331 with reverse-engineered schema + DIY fix proof)
- [BUG] Claude Desktop Windows 11 Cowork and Code tabs give this error always now: Claude Code process exited with code 3
- [BUG] Live Artifacts (CoworkArtifacts.callMcpTool) reject local stdio MCP servers on cold start — claude.ai relay rejects server name as non-UUID
- [BUG] [Claude Code Desktop app on Windows] Periodic input lag caused by 88MB LocalStorage sync and 200ms+ IndexedDB callbacks blocking renderer main thread
- Missing the Unarchive function in Claude Code for for desktop
- [BUG] Claude Desktop: no way to set CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS, session tokens consumed on failed response
- [BUG] Desktop app (Windows + macOS): new chat session repo selector is locked to last interacted-with repo and is unresponsive — Android unaffected
- [FEATURE] Desktop: allow multiple simultaneous spellchecker languages
- [BUG] Hidden Browser pane: screenshots time out 30s; preview_start no longer auto-opens the pane (regression; follow-up to #76649, NOT a dupe of #77670)
- Feature request: drag-to-reorder session groups + folder-linked groups (shared context, progress roll-up, concurrent-write gating)
- Desktop App: Allow choosing working directory before first message
- [BUG] Cowork — VM service not running on Windows 11 (fresh repro + workaround; extends closed #54891 / #61559 cluster)
- [BUG] "Session history shows in sidebar but content is empty — desktop app (Windows)"
- Keybinding: cannot override default 'enter → chat:submit' with user bindings
- [BUG] On Windows with English as the primary system language, spell check in Claude Code only checks the primary language (English).
- [BUG] Desktop App Prompt Preview Overlay covers large portions of the output screen degrading UX and making it hard to read output.
- [Bug] Claude Desktop VM workspace startup failure: path mismatch between AppData\Roaming and AppData\Local
- [Bug] Desktop: text input freezes after long session — ProseMirror placeholder/cursor disappears
- Cowork fails to start workspace on Windows 11 Pro — “Request timed out: configure”
- [Desktop App / Windows] Dragging panel headers moves entire app window instead of panels
- [BUG] Send button (submit icon) missing from input field in Desktop app (Windows)
- [BUG] Desktop app: turns triggered by cross-session messages hang at 0 tokens (manual prompts work)
- [BUG] The browser pane `computer { action: "screenshot" }` tool consistently times out after 30s with:
- [BUG] Windows Desktop app: Read tool PDF fails with 'pdftoppm is not installed' while poppler is installed, on PATH, and resolvable by the same session's shells
- [BUG] Remote Control initialization fails for every new session - registerWorker HTTP 401 (reconnects still work), since mid-May
- [BUG] SSH remote: message exceeding server line buffer wedges connection in infinite reconnect loop (token too long + stdin replay poison pill)
- [BUG] Session visible in UI but "Session not found on disk" — JSONL file exists but has mismatched internal session ID
- [BUG] Chat tab disappears when switching from Anthropic login to third-party API gateway
- Folder Renaming
- [BUG] Claude Code win desktop app - Code fence input box drops pasted lines with CRLF line endings (Windows regression in v1.6259.1)
- [BUG] "Copy message" copies empty string to clipboard on Windows 11 Desktop App
- [BUG] User-input markdown autolinker treats `.md`/`.rs` filename extensions as TLDs, mangles `<word>_<filename>.md` references in chat
- [BUG] Cowork: skill upload truncates files >99 KB and leaves null-byte tail on re-upload
- [BUG] Cowork tab not showing on Windows 11 Pro x64 — tab completely absent from navigation
- [BUG] Permission prompt defaults to "Always allow" instead of "Allow once" - dangerous UX regression
- Claude Desktop (Electron) causes NTFS NonPaged Pool kernel memory leak on Windows (~0.5GB/min)
- [BUG] CoworkVMService crashes when external/USB drive cannot be mounted as Plan9 share (v1.569.0.0)
- [BUG] User messages disappear from chat history after assistant response is rendered
- [FEATURE] Allow explicit SSH binary path configuration on Windows
- [BUG] Native desktop app (ARM64 Windows) crashes exclusively during tool use — corrupted ANSI codes at tool-call boundaries
- [BUG] Eight Defects Related to Stealth Restart of Desktop App: Hidden Relaunch for Updates Silently Destroys Running Sessions (Symptom: "Can’t reach your computer" and "Remote Control host unreachable (computer_unreachable)")
- Claude Desktop (Windows MSIX) bricks itself — package flagged "Modified" after Code Integrity blocks vk_swiftshader.dll
- [BUG] Cowork "RPC pipe closed" on Windows when app is installed on non-C: drive - signature verification requires C:\Program Files\WindowsApps, workspace reinstall fails at ~80%
- MCP-originated cross-session sends (`ccd_session_mgmt send_message`) never deliver — payload lost in app layer; receiving session UI hangs on "phantom" turn
- [BUG] Claude Desktop — recurring silent GPU-process crash kills entire app during web research (4-5×/day), no recovery, no crash dump
- [BUG] Read Out Loud / Play voice degrades mid-playback — gets soft, speeds up, voice changes, and fades
- [BUG] Desktop app Cloudflare Turnstile 403 loop on Windows 11
- [BUG] Windows desktop app main process does ~95,000 file ops/sec → kernel non-paged pool leak (~14 GB/hr) → full system freeze. Regression in 1.11847.5
- [BUG] Windows MSIX 3P mode: rootfs.vhdx commit fails, app self-terminates (beforeQuit)
- [BUG] Desktop app built-in mic button: transcription shows in italics but disappears on stop (Windows)
- Claude Code Desktop crashes with exit code 3221225477 (STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION) on Windows ARM64 — x64 winpty-agent.exe incompatibility
- [BUG] Cowork (Windows): Claude Code child process exits with code 1 immediately on spawn; misleading CLAUDE_CODE_GIT_BASH_PATH warning
- [BUG] Desktop App 2.1.111 upgrade: Code session index wiped (recoverable via workaround); Cowork history disappeared (cause unclear)