Cursor forced updates corrupted the installation

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I got a popup in my cursor IDE and I selected later as I was running a Machine Learning task from the cursor and it was writing logs etc

So my whole system was under heavy load and kinda unresponsive

I checked the task manager to kill some other tasks that might be using some resources and I saw inno_updater.exe and it was using around 2-3% of CPU

I was hitting around 94% on my 16 core machine so gaining even 2-3% was quite a lot for me at that point and since I selected later for the updates in the Cursor It shouldn’t be a problem so I ended the inno_updater.exe

And still my system was unresponsive so I stopped the ML from the curosr and closed it and tried to open it again

And I couldn’t cursor open anymore
Its removed from my pc, I got invalid shortcut message

This exact thing happened to me before

Cursor forces updates, even if you select later in the popup it ignores it and forces updates without any warning

And botched my installation, exact same thing again

Steps to Reproduce

When the popup appears click later
keep clicking later for a few days
eventually Cursor will ignore your selection and starts updating in the background
end inno_updater.exe task or restart your pc

Expected Behavior

The cursor should never force updates like that in the background

If the update will be forced atleast inform the user instead of just trying to be sneaky about it

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

I cannot find it now since the installation is corrupted and I am downloading and installing a new version now

Thanks for the report, I’ve passed it on to the team. Is your fresh installation working fine?

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