Cursor keeps crashing to the point where it must be killed by task manager, is anyone else facing a similar issue?

Support Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Cursor after being used just crashes , cant understand why. The window/ windows [all instances crash together] becomes unresponsive , i am unable to close the window either, the only thing to do is to kill the process from task manager.

I have tried renaming the repos, i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and i have tried downgrading

Steps to Reproduce

Not sure

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.20 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: b3573281c4775bfc6bba466bf6563d3d498d1070
Date: 2025-12-12T06:29:26.017Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

2

Have you tried using 1.7? I am running 1.7 and it doesn’t crash.

3

i tried using 2.0

4

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue on Windows 10/11 in 2.2.x, and many users have reported similar freezes.

Workarounds that helped other users:

  1. Update to 2.2.43. The team patched memory leaks: Download · Cursor
  2. Turn off Cursor notifications in Windows: Settings > System > Notifications > Cursor > OFF. One user found it’s related to the Windows Push Notification User Service: Is anyone else experiencing Cursor locking up after agent completes? - #13 by NegativeAL
  3. Roll back the Windows update KB5068861 if you have it installed. One user confirmed this helped: Cursor freezes on final “Review Changes” step in Agent Mode - #16 by msab

Related threads:

5

i did both 1 and 2 , but the crashes are still persistent, at this point the crashes are happening 5 mins within me opening cursor

6

Thanks for the update.

Please try:

  1. Launch Cursor from the command line with: cursor --disable-extensions. If the crashes stop, it’s likely caused by an extension.
  2. Go to Help > Toggle Developer Tools > Console and send a screenshot of any errors when the crash happens.

Also, please share the results of Network Diagnostics: Cursor Settings > Network > Run Diagnostics.

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i tried running with extensions disabled but the error is persistent.

I cannot open Toggle Developer Tools once the crash happens but upon starting cursor again i took this screenshot of the latest console messages:

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