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#412 Startup crash when Claude Desktop launches several instances at once: comtypes.gen race on UIAutomationCore wrapper (0.7.2)

#411 PowerShell tool fails with FileNotFoundError (WinError 2), silently, even with debug logging enabled

#408 Prevent system from going to sleep

#401 Claude Desktop extension channel still ships v0.7.2 without the #358 comtypes cache-race fix - startup race still killing servers

#407 Windows 7 is listed as supported, but the required Python version is incompatible

#395 Claude Desktop extension directory still ships 0.7.2 - is 0.8.x submitted?

#370 Claude Desktop MSIX launches Windows-MCP from nonexistent non-virtualized path

#372 App tool cannot launch applications by localized Chinese Start Menu names

#385 UIA returns an empty desktop when running as an MCP server (stdio and HTTP), while the identical code sees the desktop when called in-process — native x64, not #301

#332 WatchDog UIA focus listener crashes the whole MCP server after long uptime (COM "Catastrophic failure", no Python traceback)

#371 Screenshot returns undecodable image on VM/RDP desktops after the first capture

#369 PowerShell tool spawns a visible console window that steals focus (missing CREATE_NO_WINDOW)

#382 [Bug] Snapshot crashes with UnicodeEncodeError when UI tree contains emoji (surrogate pairs)

#374 Startup race on the shared comtypes gen cache kills the server: AttributeError: module 'comtypes.gen.UIAutomationClient' has no attribute 'IUIAutomation'

#392 Server pins a full CPU core after the screen wakes on Windows (asyncio self-pipe dies and the event loop busy-loops)

#393 Snapshot tree traversal retries stale UIA elements after UIA_E_ELEMENTNOTAVAILABLE

#383 Snapshot/WaitFor tree walk deadlocks Electron host apps (VS Code) → Windows kills the MCP host; need process exclusion + per-window UIA budget

#267 Shipped .python-version pins exactly 3.13, contradicting documented 3.13+

#345 Venv breaks on Microsoft Store Python patch updates; pin a uv-managed interpreter instead

#188 Feature Request: Support for automating Windows Server via RDP sessions

#350 PYTHONHOME from uv's own venv leaks into child PowerShell sessions spawned via the PowerShell tool

#356 Editable build fails with WinError 17 (cross-device move) under MSIX Claude Desktop — recurrence of #225 with a different error signature

#367 manifest.json's `uv run <entrypoint>` launch pattern is hard-blocked by Windows Smart App Control -- no override, no signed alternative shipped

#339 uv.exe / .venv Scripts\windows-mcp.exe blocked by Windows Smart App Control (Code Integrity 3077)

#342 Click/Type/Scroll tools reject valid loc coordinates: array serialized as JSON string, fails Pydantic validation