today i just rebooot my laptop and icon to open cursore become invalid. file not found, no exe file to start cursor like somebody deleted it from my pc
Steps to Reproduce
Have no ideas. Just reboot your laptop and wait. May be: make new update for cursor, push it for your users and then reboot computer
Hey, this is a known issue with the Windows auto-updater. Sometimes it removes the current install but doesn’t finish the update, especially if the PC restarts during the process.
For now, the fix is to reinstall from Cursor · Download. Your settings and chat history should still be there since only the app files get removed.
A few things that would help us track this down:
Do you remember if Cursor showed an update prompt before you restarted?
Are you running any third-party antivirus or endpoint protection like CrowdStrike or Zscaler?
Can you check whether the folder %LocalAppData%\Programs\Cursor still exists, and what’s inside it?
The team is aware of this and is tracking it. Thanks, your report helps us prioritize it.
I’ve been using Cursor IDE without any issues until last night. Today when I turned on my laptop and tried to open it, the cursor wouldn’t launch. - Application not found.
What’s strange is that the Cursor icon/logo is also missing in multiple places:
Desktop shortcut
Start menu
Control Panel / installed programs list
It sometimes appears as a blank icon instead of the normal logo.
This exact issue has actually happened once before in the past, but I never figured out what caused it.
Things I noticed:
Cursor fails to launch when I click it
The icon/logo is missing or replaced with a blank icon
System: Windows laptop
Steps to Reproduce
Not sure how to reproduce. This has happened to me in the past as well.
Expected Behavior
The cursor is unusable. Crashed. The expectation is that the cursor should always be usable.
