Windows MCP releases

Fixes

• Detected double caching of tree nodes, making 2 COM calls per node, now 1 COM call per node, further improved the tree traversal speed.
• Updated the MCP config for setting Windows-MCP in Claude Desktop from Windows Store.
• Handling UIA Errors Cleanly in UIA
• PowerShell Tool missing environment variables fix (Thanks to @JezaChen)

Added

• Added PowerShell execution logic extraction into a clean, static PowerShellExecutor class for improved code organization and stability (#158)
• Added MSIX App path resolutions to support natively launching MSIX / UWP Windows applications for AI agents (#126)
• Added Dependabot configuration for weekly and grouped updates to streamline package management (#145, #125)
• Added WINDOWS_MCP_SCREENSHOT_SCALE environment variable to documentation and explicitly handle coordinate mismatches across multiple displays (#116)
• Added .idea/ to .gitignore to exclude JetBrains IDE configurations natively (#120)
• Added dependency lock mapping for cryptography<=46.0.6 to guarantee win_arm64 ARM PyPI installation stability (#149)

Fixed

• Fixed process attachment AttachThreadInput "Access Denied" errors when interacting with protected or elevated processes (#123)
• Fixed graceful two-stage subprocess timeouts for Windows process trees to prevent orphaned tasks (#151)
• Fixed mouse coordinate mismatches by replacing screenshot_size with screenshot_original_size for precise desktop plotting (#116)
• Fixed Snapshot crashes caused by comtypes VARIANT marshaling on non-ASCII application UI layouts (#148)
• Fixed UI rendering breakages by stripping out Unicode Private Use Area characters from tool readouts (#120)
• Fixed Notification tool failing to display toast messages silently (#121)
• Fixed missing scroll attributes in scrape tool (#119)
• Prevented child process freezes by ensuring stdin=DEVNULL is passed to the shell loaders natively

What's Changed

• fix: keyboard focus not transferred when switching foreground window by @JezaChen in https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP/pull/106
• fix: import _INPUTUnion from enums to fix NameError by @JezaChen in https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP/pull/108
• fix: resolve Known Folder GUID paths before launching apps by @JezaChen in https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP/pull/110
• feat: Screenshot tool with DXCam backend reporting and UIAutomation hang fix by @yasuhirofujii-medley in https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP/pull/104
• refactor: extract tool definitions into tools/ subpackage by @yasuhirofujii-medley in https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP/pull/111
• fix: validate app ID via shell:AppsFolder instead of string check by @JezaChen in https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP/pull/112

Full Changelog: https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP/compare/v0.6.9...v0.7.0

v0.6.9

Improvements

• Tool discoverability — Added keyword synonyms to App, PowerShell, Snapshot, Scrape, Clipboard, Process, and Registry descriptions so AI clients surface the right tool on the first search
• Scrape sampling — Scrape now uses MCP sampling to summarise webpage content server-side, eliminating markdown bloat in the caller's context. New query param to focus extraction; use_sampling=False to get raw content

Bug Fixes & Features

• #98 Snapshot fast screenshot-only path via use_ui_tree=False, skipping expensive accessibility tree traversal for vision-only workflows (Thanks to @yasuhirofujii-medley)
• #97 App resize mode now accepts name to target a specific window directly without switching focus first (Thanks to @JezaChen)
• #96 Switching to a minimized window now restores and focuses it in a single call — (Thanks to @JezaChen)
• #95 Snapshot exposes use_annotation=False to return clean screenshots without bounding box overlays (Thanks to @yasuhirofujii-medley)
• #94 Snapshot accepts display=[0] / display=[0,1] to limit output to specific monitors in multi-monitor setups (Thanks to @xqdd)

Install

uvx windows-mcp==0.6.9

Changes in v0.6.2

• Extended boolean parameter compatibility to the \desktop\ module.
• Improved handling of tool arguments from LLMs.
• Updated 'manifest.json' for 'mcpb' compatibility in Claude Desktop (Thanks to @bryan-anthropic ).

Changes in v0.6.1

• Fixed Shell tool output issues (Thanks to @yakub268).
• Improved boolean parameter compatibility for main tool definitions.

What's Changed

• Performance Optimization: Fixed tool execution latency caused by PostHog analytics interference. Analytics are now batched asynchronously, resulting in ~6x faster tool completion times.
• Improved Initialization: Fixed the issue where the MCP server took too much time to initialize.
• Bug Fixes: Resolved the 'Thread Detach Error' that occurred when switching between applications.

Key Performance Gains

• Removed blocking network calls in tools.
• Reduced server startup time.
• More stable application lifecycle management.

Fixes

• Removed dependency on live-inspect

Refactoring

• Migrated from the uiautomation library, for more comprehensive use of the Accessibility API.