Getting Claude Co-work running on Windows

Claude dropped Co-work for windows today. But the permissions to install are not useful. If you have admin control of your box, and it is still not working here is a solution:

Run powershell/cmd as administrator and run this command:

reg add “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModelUnlock” /t REG_DWORD /f /v “AllowAllTrustedApps” /d “1”

To remove that permission afterwards and keep yourself safe:

reg add “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModelUnlock” /t REG_DWORD /f /v “AllowAllTrustedApps” /d “0”

Claude install will put a new instance in killing the short cuts as well, but once through that you will have Claude Co-work on your desktop to do what it does on Mac. (Though it appears not in all the useful folders if you have a second harddrive.)

Good luck.

This first appeared on LinkedIn on 12 February 2026. If you want to comment or discuss, that’s the place.