Performance issue - Cursor win ARM64

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When using my surface laptop 7 (ARM 64) the search is very slow / is loading indefinitely
During this search, my laptop is laggy and heating

Steps to Reproduce

Use the surface laptop 7 arm64
Search for a term (ctrl + shift + f)

Expected Behavior

The search is supposed to work in less than 20sec
When searching with my other pc it works fine

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.44 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 20adc1003928b0f1b99305dbaf845656ff81f5d0
Date: 2025-12-24T21:41:47.598Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT arm64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue on Windows ARM64. The Visual C++ Redistributable is missing.

Try this:

  1. Fully close Cursor
  2. Install https://aka.ms/vc14/vc_redist.arm64.exe
  3. Restart Cursor

Other Surface ARM64 users have confirmed this fix: Global search only works on open files

Let me know if it worked!

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