I’ve been dealing with the Cursor freezing for many versions now. I’m currently running 2.3.15 on Windows 11 and have seen this issue all the way back to early version 2.0. The freezing happened most frequently in Agent mode when the Agent tried to prompt me to “Run” a build after it made some changes. It also happened frequently in Ask mode when it would get to the end of providing an answer.
Every time it froze, the IDE was locked up, unresponsive, and my only recourse was to use Windows Task Manager to kill the threads and re-open Cursor.
After going through the Cursor settings tabs, I decided to turn off System Notifications (Settings > General > Notifications > System Notifications toggle button) and boom… the IDE hasn’t frozen up on me in the last 24 hours of heavy use.
I have a feeling there are other things causing freezing to happen, but hopefully this helps someone else.
Thank for information, i just experien Network issues, first, Agent just freeze and doing nothing. CUrsor still work. than, i try using git in cursor, and it also cant push commit and than try to test network in WSL. turn out its network issues
sometime, problem in WSL? not cursor it self.
i dont know for case with Cursor Freeze its because of Cursor run tough WSL, not on Windows directly, or for your case its on Windows? for notification. i dont have this issue running on WSL, i am on version 2.3.21
Hey, thanks for the report and for sharing the workaround. This will definitely help other users with the same issue.
Disabling system notifications can indeed help with freezes after the agent finishes. This issue was fixed in version 2.2.43 and later. I’d recommend updating to the latest version (2.3.21+ is currently available) if you haven’t already.