So I’ve noticed that ever since 2.6.19 Cursor has started to uninstall itself. I reinstalled v2.6.19 because I had the exe locally and it was getting irritating redownloading it time and time and time again!
I noticed it applied an update (I used to like doing these manually myself because I liked playing with new features, but now updates have more bugs than features). Is anyone else having this problem?
My other question: are we goign to get another terrible version with a memory leak (from april to december 2025 my cursor was rendered obsolete because vscode/cursor had a memory leak and cursor has terrible customer support…no offense)
Hey, this is a known issue with the Windows auto-updater. The updater uses a staging mechanism during updates, and if something interrupts the process (reboot, antivirus, timing issues), the installation can end up broken, which looks like Cursor “uninstalled itself.”
A couple of things you can do:
Download and reinstall from Cursor · Download. This should give you a clean install.
If you want to prevent auto-updates, open Settings Ctrl+, search for update.mode, and set it to "none". That will stop Cursor from updating on its own.
The team is aware of this class of Windows updater issues. Your report helps with visibility.
Regarding the memory leak, that was a separate issue that has since been addressed. If you’re still seeing high memory usage on the current version, let me know and we can dig into it.
