Latest Update Auto Installs After Reverting To Previous Version

[MidnightOak]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

After installing a previous version, opening Cursor, it installs the latest version automatically with no popup or anything.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install previous version from Cursor · Download (ie. CursorUserSetup-x64-2.4.37.exe)
2. Open Cursor, check version and it is the previous version
   
   
3. A few seconds later, see that it is “Installing Update…” without any prompt to confirm
   
   
4. Then see that it is asking to “Restart to Update”
   
   
5. If you close Cursor and open it back up, it will be the latest version 2.5.20

Expected Behavior

It doesn’t auto install the update.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 2.5.20 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 511523af765daeb1fa69500ab0df5b6524424610
Date: 2026-02-19T20:41:31.942Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[MidnightOak]

This bug paired with these two other critical bugs is making it very difficult to work. Reverting has been the only solution, and now I need to make sure I don’t close Cursor otherwise I have to reinstall the previous version each time.

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[Schenk0 (Noah Schenk)]

+1 also experiencing this!

[MI_mi]

+1，restrict the automatic update by revoking the permissions of **inno_updater.exe；**but it doesn’t seem to work.

[deanrie]

Hey, this is a known issue. update.mode: none/manual doesn’t correctly block auto-updates on Windows. We’re tracking it.

There’s a workaround. After installing an older version, go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\cursor-updater and either delete that folder or make it read-only. Some users also tried removing permissions from inno_updater.exe, but as @MI_mi noted, that works inconsistently.

Let us know if the cursor-updater folder trick worked for you.

[MI_mi]

The %LOCALAPPDATA%\cursor-updater folder has remained empty. After being deleted during this installation, it was not recreated.（win 10）

Access permissions for the “tools” folder (the parent directory of inno_updater.exe) have been restricted. Although system errors occurred during the process, automatic updates appear to have stopped. Further observation is required to confirm

[MidnightOak]

Setting this to manual stopped the auto updating for me