Anthropic: Claude Desktop failing to open for some users
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- resolved
If Claude fails to launch on your computer, please download the latest version from download the latest version on https://claude.com/download (opens in new tab). We have now fixed the underlying issue.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Anthropic, started 2026-02-25 16:23 UTC, resolved after 7.5 h, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Claude Desktop failing to open for some users
- Vendor
- Anthropic
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/anthropic/incidents/d392wcgvxl01
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