Updates are disabled because you are running the user-scopex installation of Cursor as Administrator

after install the 0.45.11 from www.cursor.com, it will pop update notify.
it will update to 0.45.15
open cursor ,will have notice below



I think this is because vscode have different version for normal user and admin user, but cursor only use the “user installer”.


my host only have one administrator, now I can update manually next, but I think automatic updates are necessary.

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same issue for me, it doesn’t want to update to 0.46

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0.45.15 installer will show below notice
previous installer is normal

Same issue here.

Edit: Disabling UAC seemed to do the trick. Was able to update after that.

It has nothing to do with UAC, I directly use administrator and close UAC

I meant enabling it, try setting UAC to Always notify. Restart your computer, and try to update.

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This also helped me when installing/reinstalling since there is a warning message about User installation …
enabling UAC solved it !

maybe can solve this, but I don’t want to enable UAC, it is an meaningless security mechanism on Windows that is easy to bypass.

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Hi, I just got the same issue. Can’t install it properly, UAC or not (i tried both), it’s only user installer, and the updates won’t show up, I will have to find new releases manually. Can’t find the expected “Admin installer” it ask me to download from cursor website.

I am installing Cursor on AWS EC2 instances. The instances are initialized with an Administrator user with full admin rights. It is a burden to try to set up a separate user each time just to allow Cursor to stay current with updates.

Does anyone have a solution that will allow Cursor updates without changing the Administrator rights or adding a new user?

https://downloads.cursor.com/production/4a602340d7b014d700647120bae9079607f2ae9b/win32/x64/system-setup/CursorSetup-x64-0.47.0.exe

Since there is a system version of cursor, why not provide a download link on the official website?

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