Also happened to me today on Windows 11 Pro 24H2. I’ve updated Cursor, it relaunched and after some time update popup showed up again. I decided to do that later and closed the pop up, continued the work. Then I closed the app to open it again to see if the pop up will be displayed and update it, but after I closed the app it disappeared from my computer and shortcut points to null place.
Please priotize this fix, I am a pro user and this is hard to deal with.
happening to me too.
Windows 11, latest patch.
It is unusable, reverted back to vanilla vscode for the time being.
This just happened to me.
Cursor uninstalled itself, and I couldn’t find it for a few minutes, it’s now back again.
This happened to me when I closed the last window of Cursor, so I think it triggered an auto update in the background.
Also, Cursor 0.45.4 has been opening very slow compared to the latest version of VSCode
Now after the auto re-install it’s on 0.45.7
Version: 0.45.7
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 6ea842450e04c5537da4d83d51823fae13bb30f0
Date: 2025-01-30T18:32:32.733Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
It’s happening to me as well, it’s very frustrating, do we have an answer from cursor support team or something?
Hey all, just to confirm, if you download the latest version from cursor.com, launch it, and then close it, does it still reliably uninstall itself?
This may just be a buggy or slow auto-updater, but if not, we want to make sure we investigate!
Hey @danperks I downloaded the latest version from the URL you shared, and it still uninstalled itself.
i have same issue in 2025… still you dont find any solution??
I am also having the same issue on two different computers. (work computer and personal computer). It happened after Cursor did an update on both. The next time I started the computer, Cursor was gone.
Using Cursor Setup 0.45.8 - Build 250201b44xw1x2k-x64.exe, it runs for the first time from \AppData\Local\Programs\cursor, and when I close it, it automatically deletes itself.
yes it just happened to me like 15 minutes ago.
i installed it twice from the website and it deleted itself.
using Cursor Setup 0.45.4 - Build 250126vgr3vztvj-x64.exe has update it self to 0.45.9 and seems to want to stay.
I have the same issue.
When I want to restart the machine I still have cursor hanging process.
If I delete the process or force restart it on system boot, the cursor application will not be installed.
I’m using WSL
Version: 0.45.5
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: e599ee6d2218c8b6fef45980f8cc964bacc0caa0
Date: 2025-01-28T22:23:41.566Z
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel
OS Version: 10.0.26100 N/A Build 26100
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration: Member Workstation
OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Precision 5760
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 141 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~2496 Mhz
BIOS Version: Dell Inc. 1.31.0, 14-Nov-24
Just happened to me today
Something a bit similar happened to me on Linux / Ubuntu. I use my own pipeline to check / download / reconfigure new versions of Cursor, and checking online a few minutes ago I saw that version 0.45.9 was available, but when trying to install it locally the checksum was similar to the one I had already installed, and checking, a few hours ago this latest version had been installed replacing the current one, but not completely since some parts of the pipeline, even if the .AppImage is automatically changed, are not synchronized.
Although it did not cause major problems, I think it would be important for us to be able to manage these things, I suppose it is done for important changes that correct things that break the flow, but it would be good if we could manually define when to install updates and have control over that, or receive the update notification and proceed to update after confirmation, as I think happened before.
I had not noticed this with other versions prior to 0.45.9.
This has happened to me a few times, but I think I just figured out how to reproduce it.
This is all within a span of 5 minutes, the ONLY thing I did, was purchase a subscription with cursor open, and upon opening it, something caused it to delete itself.
I think I understand what the issue is. While I’m surprised that the Cursor team hasn’t been able to resolve this for so long, perhaps what I’m about to say might help.
Normally, when you install a program on Windows, it is placed under Program Files or Program Files (x86) depending on whether it’s a 32-bit or 64-bit application. However, when I run “Cursor Setup 0.45.8 - Build 250201b44xw1x2k-x64.exe”, nothing gets installed under the Program Files directories.
When I search for the program and open its file location, I see it under:
“C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor”
I’m not a Windows expert or administrator, but it seems like the issue is that the setup file is not installing the program in the correct directory.
Still happening on v0.45.8 - Build 250201b44xw1x2k-x64
Just happened to me today
It happened to me repeatly, I tried to reinstall multiple times, but the issue still persist.
This is expected for many apps installed for the current user only. Program files is for the installation system-wise.