Performance Issue with Cursor Editor / Cursor ai is too slow

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Performance Issue with Cursor Editor / Cursor ai is too slow

Describe the Bug

Performance Issue with Cursor Editor / Cursor ai is too slow

Steps to Reproduce

Let’s try these steps to resolve the performance issues:

  1. First, could you check if any extensions might be causing high resource usage:

Open Settings > Application > Experimental
Enable “Extension Monitor”
After Cursor restarts, use Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P and type “Developer: Open Extension Monitor”
Check which extensions are consuming the most resources
2. If you’re on a corporate network or VPN, try disabling HTTP/2:

Press Cmd/Ctrl + ,
Search for “HTTP/2”
Enable “Disable HTTP/2”
Restart Cursor
3. Clear temporary files by this %temp%, let’s try a complete app data reset:

Quit Cursor completely
Open Command Prompt and run these commands:
rd /s /q “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Cursor” rd /s /q “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Cursor” rd /s /q “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Cursor” del /f /q “%USERPROFILE%.cursor*” rd /s /q “%USERPROFILE%.cursor”

Reinstall Cursor fresh from Downloads | Cursor - The AI Code Editor

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Problem will fix with latest version

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hi @Asif_Inamdar are you reporting a bug? If yes could you provide information using the steps that you listed in your post above?