Hey, I can see the screenshots with Diagnostics and the Extensions panel.
The “Timeout waiting for EverythingProvider” and “Cancelled” errors in Diagnostics are a side effect of the extension host crashing. The extension host retrieval-always-local is crashing because of the built-in indexing binary, and until it comes back up, the network providers won’t initialize.
This is a known issue on Windows. Try this:
- Cursor Settings (not VS Code settings) > Indexing & Docs
- Turn off Index Repositories for Instant Grep (BETA). This is the main trigger
- If that doesn’t help, turn off Codebase Indexing entirely
- Restart Cursor
You’ll lose local codebase search, but chat, agent, and Tab completions will still work.
The fact that it works in a VM confirms it’s something in the local environment. A couple questions:
- What Cursor version are you on? Help > About Cursor > Copy
- Do you have any VPN software installed, even if it’s not running? For another user, fully uninstalling the VPN fixed a similar issue: Extension host terminated unexpectedly no matter what i try
- How big is the project, roughly how many files?
Let me know if turning off Instant Grep helped.