Curse

A_Muppet · May 11, 2007, 12:24 PM // 12:24

Me again, with the same bug-when I try to run guildwars it says it can't write to the location. I need to be an admin (I am), being writing to the correct location (I am) or have enough HD space (And I know modern games are a hog, but 160gb should be enough)

This time I've been doing some digging. It appears that the gw.exe is busy doing something or being accessed, because:

1. When I try reinstalling it the uninstaller doesn't delete the .exe
2. When I try to manually delete it, it says it's either doing running or being used by another proggy
3. When I copy and paste the guildwars folder and try to run it from there, I get the same problem-that's right, a fresh copy is also apparently suffering from points #1 and #2.

Lucifer PVP · May 11, 2007, 12:35 PM // 12:35

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Originally Posted by A_Muppet

Me again, with the same bug-when I try to run guildwars it says it can't write to the location. I need to be an admin (I am), being writing to the correct location (I am) or have enough HD space (And I know modern games are a hog, but 160gb should be enough)

This time I've been doing some digging. It appears that the gw.exe is busy doing something or being accessed, because:

1. When I try reinstalling it the uninstaller doesn't delete the .exe
2. When I try to manually delete it, it says it's either doing running or being used by another proggy
3. When I copy and paste the guildwars folder and try to run it from there, I get the same problem-that's right, a fresh copy is also apparently suffering from points #1 and #2.

1. What OS do you have
2. Did you restart your computer and try reinstalling
3. Did you end the gw.exe process in task manager
4. Disable any antivirus/spyware you have during installation of GW
5. The game is less then 4 gigs in size so you are fine
6. You can try process explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx
and see what using it.
7. if you are installing from a CD try just downloading the client
http://www.guildwars.com/support/downloadclient/

A_Muppet · May 11, 2007, 12:47 PM // 12:47

1. XP
2. Yep, no luck after a fresh reinstall
3. Tried this, not listed in the processes section.
4. It's only started doing this recently-the anti virus has *never* interfered with Gw before. And yes, but to no avail.
5. I know that.

6. Again, doesn't appear to be in the list.

Since I posted, I've restarted and tried reinstalling, but no luck. I then re-logged in and shutdown Teatimer.exe (it's a registry protection utility that comes with Spybot S&D) and now it's working. Can anyone else check is it's Teatimer.exe that's doing this?

Lucifer PVP · May 11, 2007, 01:04 PM // 13:04

I use tea timer and have had zero issues, maybe a registry setting was getting blocked or tea timer was just blocking gw without prompting

A_Muppet · May 11, 2007, 01:12 PM // 13:12

Hm, then assuming it's not Teatimer I wonder what could be causing this...

wadeybabe · May 11, 2007, 04:17 PM // 16:17

I also think it is caused by TeaTimer, due to the fact that I was having the same problem until the program was disabled.

tijo · May 12, 2007, 05:03 AM // 05:03

Yeah, it is teatimer.exe, that issue been around the forum now and then. There are some updates that teatimer seems to allow and others it messes with, no idea why though.

EDIT: Re-enable teatimer.exe after updating though, that way your internet protection isn't down longer than necessary.

Mithra · May 12, 2007, 12:15 PM // 12:15

Glad to find about Tea Timer, because this was happenning to me for 3 Fridays in a row and I was begenning to suspect some sort of attack against GW week ends. I willl disable TT.