For work, I occasionally need to use a Windows machine and I’ve noticed that startup for Cursor is shockingly slow on Windows compared to my main machine. It can take up to thirty seconds some times for the IDE to be interactable. The machine itself it’s being run on is fairly capable so I am confident it’s not that and VS Code isn’t having the same issue.
Why is this happening?
Hey, thanks for the report. Could you try opening another project or a blank Cursor window and running the agent to see if the issue persists? Also, please let me know your OS and Cursor version.
I am experiencing the same issues on Windows 11. Cursor startup is ridiculously slow. It did not used to be this way but has been this way for several months now. I have only a few extensions installed and have also purged the cursor folders under AppData just to see if there was something I could do to resolve it. That didn’t help though.
I am confirming what OP said, when opening Cursor (latest version always) it takes upwards of 30+ seconds to open.
Same here – took around 15 seconds to launch cold on a Win 11, 7950X3D w/ 64GB memory with more than enough resources available. VS Code has the same problem generally.
It sucks because I use Cursor for a scratch pad when I need to do something quick on my gaming PC, but it just takes way too long. I’ve barely used it on this machine too, so any caches it might have must be tiny.
Same here - open Cursor, go make a cup of tea come back and it’s about ready.
Reasonably recent performant machines.
Sometimes I convince I self I’ve not even opened it and try again, then two pop up sometime later!