diff --git a/quickstart/user.mdx b/quickstart/user.mdx
index b74de2c..a6a53e5 100644
--- a/quickstart/user.mdx
+++ b/quickstart/user.mdx
@@ -193,6 +193,35 @@ type "%APPDATA%\Claude\logs\mcp*.log"
Please refer to our [debugging guide](/docs/tools/debugging) for better debugging tools and more detailed guidance.
+
+
+If your configured server fails to load, and you see within its logs an error referring to `${APPDATA}` within a path, you may need to add the expanded value of `%APPDATA%` to your `env` key in `claude_desktop_config.json`:
+
+```json
+{
+ "brave-search": {
+ "command": "npx",
+ "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"],
+ "env": {
+ "APPDATA": "C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Roaming\\",
+ "BRAVE_API_KEY": "..."
+ }
+ }
+}
+```
+
+With this change in place, launch Claude Desktop once again.
+
+
+**NPM should be installed globally**
+
+The `npx` command may continue to fail if you have not installed NPM globally. If NPM is already installed globally, you will find `%APPDATA%\npm` exists on your system. If not, you can install NPM globally by running the following command:
+
+```bash
+npm install -g npm
+```
+
+