after I enabled Agents Window, it will always start, and old UI editor window doesn’t show up by default. I have to right click on the icon on the task bar, and click New Window to start a new cursor to see the old ui
How can I stop Agents Window completely. really annoying
Hi @Ron_Yan Cursor remembers the last way that you closed the app. So if the last window you close before quitting Cursor is the Agents Window it will re-open with that. If the last window you close before quitting Cursor is the IDE, it will re-open in the IDE view.
Hi Kevin,
It’s not working. the problem is: if I close Agents window first, it will automatically close the legacy UI editor. There isn’t a way to let cursor old UI open only.
Best Regards
Ron
Can you please go to About Cursor → And share your system information that looks something like this?
Version: 3.1.15 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 3a67af7b780e0bfc8d32aefa96b8ff1cb8817f80
Date: 2026-04-15T01:46:06.515Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT arm64 10.0.26200
From there, I can try to reproduce or provide guidance on how to avoid this. Thanks!
Version: 3.1.15 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 3a67af7b780e0bfc8d32aefa96b8ff1cb8817f80
Date: 2026-04-15T01:46:06.515Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
things to reproduce
a) close all windows, task manager show no cursor processes
b) start cursor(run Cursor.exe without any args)
only Agents Window show up. Old UI doesn’t show up
c) Right click Cursor icon, and then select New Window , or simply Cursor, the cursor edit window appears, but slow enough until following error
I’m on the same version on Windows as you and the New Window does work for me, but I recommend that you open it this way: From the Agents View, click File → Open Editor Window or Ctrl + Shift + N
Once you have the IDE view open, you can close the Agents View. Next you open up Cursor it will open to the IDE Editor View.
Okay. Thank you! I finally turned off Agents Window, and then Cursor’s CPU consumption dropped significantly!
I’d say the way to disable/turnoff a feature is really not obvious! Also the performance penalty is too high.
Glad to hear it! Sorry for any trouble, Ron.
I do have the same issue, even when using the proper VS Code style, if I log in and log out, it loads at the ‘agents windows’ view. How do you coplitelly disable this view or remove it?
go to agents window, then there is a menu to switch back to editor window. once it’s done, it will be able to close agents window
The solution does not work for me. Very annoying, the agents window opens first. There is an option to go to the editor in the file menu and the top right. I have tried both ways and it still always opens the agents window first. The editor totally forgets what project it was on. Please make a toggle switch.
I want to request this feature too, this is quite annoying, that I need to open the Cursor 2 times, when I switch accounts. Also I would really like to have an option of removing\disabling the Agent Windows, I don’t like it and I don’t want to use it. I need my layout to be customizable (VS Code does it already).
This is a huge problem for me since my last Cursor update.
Also, after I close the agent’s view, click Cursor and reopen. It re-opens the agent’s view. Here is a video.
This update seems to have happened in the last week
Also, my Cursor using the command line `cursor.`no longer works - it always opens the same window.
This is a HUGE bug for me and warrants me switching to a competitors product.
Version info:
Version: 3.5.33
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: aac81804b986d739acab348ed96b8bea6e83cc50
Date: 2026-05-22T06:47:48.039Z
Layout: glass
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0
Adding --classic fixed it for me. See here:
This is becoming really annoying. I don’t know why they keep pushing this kind of half-bake features that get in the way.
Edit: the settings toggle works.
I really hate the latest update! I wanna my editor window back!
This is such a regular thing with Cursor. They are the only tech company I have seen that constantly pushes changes that break core workflows and a lot of the times features are missing or nonexistent. You would think we opted into some beta release, but these are their stable releases.
Completely close Cursor and try the following:
Right-click the Cursor execution icon in Windows.
Select Properties.
Add “–classic” to the very end of the Target value,
Ex:
\Programs\cursor\Cursor.exe --classic
Click Apply, and then double-click the Cursor icon to run it.
Version: 3.12.17
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: 0fb762053c34788bb7760d5673f8a6d4c8589d50
Date: 2026-07-17T02:53:53.006Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0
Still have this issue on MacOS, this startup window setting doesn’t work correctly
