Computer Use cannot enumerate Windows apps: EnumWindows fails with 0x80070003

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Aug 10, 2026 by prashantbhamu
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Summary

In Codex Desktop on Windows, the bundled Computer Use plugin cannot inspect or control tagged desktop applications because window enumeration fails.

Reproduction

  1. Tag Microsoft Calculator in a Codex task.
  2. Ask Codex to inspect Calculator and perform a calculation strictly using the Computer Use plugin.
  3. Initialize @oai/sky as documented by the bundled computer-use skill.
  4. Call sky.list_windows().

Actual result

EnumWindows failed: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x80070003)

Additional observations:

  • sky.list_apps() fails with the same EnumWindows error.
  • sky.launch_app({ app: "C:\\Windows\\System32\\calc.exe" }) returns:

``
Error: node_repl exec context not found
``

  • The bundled skill instructs callers to use sky.documentation("guidance"), sky.documentation("confirmations"), and sky.documentation("api"), but the loaded sky object has no documentation method.
  • Calculator itself can run; the failure appears confined to the Computer Use control/runtime path.

Environment

  • Codex Desktop on Windows
  • Computer Use plugin skill bundle: 26.803.41515
  • Date observed: 2026-08-10
  • Target app: Microsoft Windows Calculator (Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App)

Expected result

Computer Use should enumerate the tagged Calculator window, inspect its state, send calculator input, and read the displayed result.

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2 Comments

prashantbhamu · 18 days ago

Related report: #37281 covers the accompanying node_repl exec context not found failure. This issue additionally captures the earlier EnumWindows/0x80070003 failure and the sky.documentation API mismatch.

github-actions[bot] contributor · 18 days ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #37383
  • #37739
  • #37734
  • #37595
  • #37697

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