The cursor application is deleting itself.

Happened to me today on Windows 10.

I am having the same issues. PC was off and got here this morning and mysteriosly the cursor icon was gane and no trace of it on the pc

This had been happening to me when we first start using cursor at work, about 7 months ago. Then it got fixed and hadn’t happened for months. Until today. Yesterday I had a prompt that there was an update that I ignored. I closed cursor, shut down my system and today when I started back up, cursor…

0.50.2 is what I had. To fix, I downloaded 0.50.5. And then when the prompt to update came up, I triggered that and am now at 0.51.2.

Still an issue. I can confirm what others have already pointed out: Declining the update popup causes Cursor to delete itself. I’m not sure if this happens after closing the app or restarting the PC, but either way, the result is the same. After reinstalling, I found that all my chat history was…

Same thing happened to me today! I refused the update, closed Cursor, and shut down my PC. When I turned it back on, the Cursor icon was blank and the app wouldn’t launch. Luckily, I still had the original installation setup file from when I first downloaded it. Running it again repaired everythin…

Same issue here. It happens at least twice a week on my Windows 11 installs - three different machines. I don’t lose data, but it is so annoying to have to download and install it every time it happens. Shipping updates shouldn’t cause this kind of hassle.

Same issue. Happens a few times a month. No anti-virus. I suspect it’s related to not accepting an update?

Just happened to me after I shut down my PC and accepted a Windows update as I did so. When I started back up Cursor was gone and when I tried to start it Windows told me the shortcut was dead and asked me if I wanted to delete it. This was the update: June 10, 2025—KB5060533 (OS Builds 19044.5965 …

Cursor removing Itself?

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