Why is Cursor’s MCP server configuration for Windows so complicated???
When I click on “Add a new Server” on windows a global mcp.json file opens and I have to manually add the server in the correct json format that they want… also when the MCP client activates a new terminal window pops up every time.
On Mac I just add the simple command on the input area in the Form that appears when I click “Add a new Server”. No tricky json files, no terminal popups. Easy.
Terminal opening is a windows thing.
The JSON file is 0.48 change and you use on mac an older version it seems.
Docu shows settings:
so for every MCP server that I have I will have a terminal popup on windows? why is this a thing?
Im not sure why this happens but there are several threads about MCP on windows and it does that.
So if you have 2 MCPs it would open two terminals
okay thanks a lot
this “windows thing” has to do with the windows powershell etc or is it something that the devs are able to patch in upcoming updates?
because in Claude Desktop for example I don’t think that these pop ups appear. Haven’t tested it to be sure tho
I saw that the Cursor team is aware of it in other threads.
I had the same problem, but a well known LLM (yes, Claude) helped me and composed new json settings that prevents the terminal windows to pop up. Here is an example from my json that now works. It uses cmd and more attributes in the “args” section, but I have no idea why this works. 
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