Solution Background
When users need to switch Cursor IDE accounts, they may encounter limitations with device identification bindings. Officially, accounts are usually associated with device hardware information to prevent multiple devices from sharing authorization. This tool allows you to reset the key device identification parameters.
Specific steps
- Windows system
- Completely exit the Cursor IDE process
- Administrator privileges to execute PowerShell commands:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass; iwr -Uri "https://.../reset.ps1" -UseBasicParsing | iex - In case of process blocking, execute
taskkill /f /im cursor.exe
- macOS
- Executed through the terminal:
curl -o /tmp/reset.sh https://.../reset.sh && chmod +x /tmp/reset.sh && sudo /tmp/reset.sh - Used when the process has not exited
pkill -9 Cursor
- Executed through the terminal:
caveat
- Automatically backs up the original device identifier to a proprietary directory before operation
- New account login is required to avoid triggering binding detection
- May affect other software that relies on MachineGuid
This answer comes from the articleCursor Reset: A script to reset the device identifier for Cursor versions 0.45.x and above.The
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