Every time I open a project, it doesn’t show me the files, extensions or file content and stays with the main area white and something running. I think it is indexing.
I need to close, kill it in task manager then retry a couple of times until it allows usage.
Thought that was integration with claude code but I uninstalled claude code, reinstalled cursor from scratch and I see cursor still has issues.
I am on Dell XPS, Windows 11 Cursor 3.1.17, vscode version 1.105.1, comit fce1e9a
Hey, this looks a lot like a known bug with restoring Claude Code webview tabs on startup. Even after removing the extension and reinstalling Cursor, each workspace can still have cached claudeVSCodePanel entries in state.vscdb, and the IDE tries to restore them and ends up hanging the renderer.
Try this workaround:
Fully close Cursor.
Go to %APPDATA%\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage\ (paste it into File Explorer).
Find the folder for the problem project inside (it’s named by a hash) and delete it (make a backup first). If you’re not sure which one it is, you can delete the whole workspaceStorage folder. That’s safe. You’ll only lose per-workspace stuff like expanded folders in the sidebar and recent tabs. Your project files won’t be touched.
Start Cursor and open the project again.
If it freezes again on a clean workspace, it’s likely a different class of bug. In that case, please share logs from Help > Toggle Developer Tools > Console (the red errors right when it freezes), and check if running cursor --disable-extensions helps.
