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

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.

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 E…

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_N…

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…

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 toggl…

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 doe…

How can I turn off agents window

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MidnightOak May 26, 2026, 3:20am 20

Adding --classic fixed it for me. See here:

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Opening in Agent Mode Bug Reports agents-window	6	533	July 15, 2026
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Agents Panel defaults open no matter what I do Bug Reports layout , agents-window	14	791	July 15, 2026
Stop open "New Agent" sidebar everytime open a new Cursor Window Bug Reports nightly , layout , agents-window	5	505	May 10, 2026

How can I turn off agents window

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