Dll missing in latest Cursor windows arm install?

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

: A native exception occurred during launch (Cannot find conpty.dll at c:\Users\ASUS\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor\resources\app\node_modules\node-pty\build\Release\conpty\conpty.dll, error code: 3)。

When launching terminal in Windows arm using latest Cursor version.

Steps to Reproduce

Open Cursor. Open Terminal.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.23.23 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: 2dac2428994fe34f12658d9ecad1541b98db2c00
Date: 2026-10-05T01:43:43.807Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 42.10.0
Chromium: 148.0.7778.280
Node.js: 24.18.1
V8: 14.8.178.38-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.291
OS: Windows_NT arm64 10.0.26300

Additional Information

I asked Cursor to fix itself and it copied the dll from Vscode and working fine as the screenshot shows.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, thanks for the report, and good to hear you were already able to get the terminal working.

It looks like the bundled ConPTY files are missing from the Windows ARM64 build for 3.23, and this only shows up when terminal.integrated.windowsUseConptyDll is enabled. I’ve passed this on to the team.

The DLL you copied manually may get overwritten again during the next update. A more reliable workaround is to set this option back to its default value:

  1. Open Settings Ctrl+,
  2. Find terminal.integrated.windowsUseConptyDll
  3. Uncheck it, or set "terminal.integrated.windowsUseConptyDll": false in settings.json
  4. Close any open terminals and open a new one

With this setting turned off, the terminal uses the ConPTY built into Windows, so it doesn’t need the bundled DLL. Let me know if the terminal still won’t start with the setting turned off.