Cursor removing Itself? After closing it

[Kalidron]

I installed Cursor two weeks ago. Recently, after closing it , the application removing itself on my PC (windows) . I have to downland and install it again every time. How can I solve this issue ? Thanks.

[danperks]

Hey, we are actively looking into this at the moment and believe there is a bug causing this.
Sorry for any inconvenience in the meantime!

[saiello]

Any update on this? It’s happening to me as well.

[danperks]

Hey, if you are facing this (e.g. @saiello) can you wait until it removes itself, then send a screenshot of any files left in the%LocalAppData%\Programs\Cursor folder.

We’re still trying to debug and fix this, but can’t reproduce it on our end yet!

[sensys-dev]

gets deleted every time a new update is released. when i close cursor for the day a small popup comes up for uninstalling and next day there is no cursor.exe in the folder.

[Kalidron]

I realized that when I updated the cursor regularly, I haven’t seen the problem recently. But the bug still needs to be fixed

[yhafez]

This seemed to fix the issue for me:

Cursor removing Itself?

I had this issue today, and I think I figured out what was it causing it, at least for me. It’s an issue with Windows Defender. Windows Defender recently prompted me to update my settings for “App & Browser Control” and when I clicked “Turn On”, that’s when the issue seemed to happen. To fix it, I went to “Windows Defender” → “App & Browser Control” → “Reputation-based Protection Settings” and turned off “Check Apps and Files” and “Potentially Unwanted App Blocking”, and then it started working…

[saiello]

If this happens again I will do so. Love the product!

[flexyyyapk]

It seems I have fixed the problem. In the folder C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor you need to rename the Cursor Uninstall.exe file to another one (preferably without the word uninstall) and it seems like my cursor and its files are not deleted. I tried to close and open several times and everything is fine.