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Old Aug 31, 2011, 05:33 PM // 17:33   #1
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So I am a new gw player just joined the other day...came from wow. Well when I downloaded it and installed I got no desktop icon instead I havta go to search gw everytime and it will pull up the setup. I click the setup and it asks me if I want to run guild wars from its current location...uninstall etc. Is that normal? How can I complete the setup? Eerrrr

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Btw I can click run from current location and play just fine....just annoying to me having to search and not having a desktop icon lol
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Old Aug 31, 2011, 05:40 PM // 17:40   #2
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There's nothing on the start menu ?
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Old Aug 31, 2011, 05:42 PM // 17:42   #3
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Nope. Nothing there. I am forced to run setup every single time. Quite annoying.
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Old Aug 31, 2011, 06:06 PM // 18:06   #4
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Next time you find GW, right click on gw.exe (the ".exe" part may be hidden) and select "Send To" and then "Desktop (Create shortcut)" and viola!, a desktop icon.
If you have Vista or 7, there will also be an icon in "Games" from the start menu.
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Old Sep 01, 2011, 06:24 AM // 06:24   #5
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If you right click on the setup, do you have " Run as Administrator" there ?
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Old Sep 01, 2011, 07:29 AM // 07:29   #6
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Thank you for your replies. I am Omw home now from work finally.....been at work for 34 hours eeeek I will try the ideas after I shower and let y'all know how it went. Truly Appreciate the help
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Old Sep 02, 2011, 05:39 AM // 05:39   #7
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Unfortunately nothing worked. I suppose I will just have to search for it every time
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Old Sep 02, 2011, 02:35 PM // 14:35   #8
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Are you searching for "GWsetup" or "gw.exe"? Once it's installed, you'd want to run gw.exe - and since you say it runs fine after you select "run from current location", it seems to be installed.
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Old Sep 10, 2011, 10:54 AM // 10:54   #9
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I cannot find gw.exe I search for gw and setup pulls up. I right click I click open containing folder. It opens up my downloaded folder. Its nowhere in there. I go back. I search for gw.exe specifically. Nothing. I have no clue lol
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Old Sep 10, 2011, 03:27 PM // 15:27   #10
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Check to see if you have GW in C:\Program Files\Guild Wars or C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars

Also, ensure that when you search for "gw.exe" that you search the whole C: drive. Often, if you don't specify, Search only looks in the folder it started up in.
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