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Wargod The Great · Mar 02, 2006, 01:35 AM // 01:35

Im not a tech dude but wtf does it mean when you turn on guild wars it says another copy of guildwars is running etc. when its not.. uhh HELP?

Wargod The Great · Mar 02, 2006, 01:54 AM // 01:54

it wont start up wtf i checked everywhere and there is not another copy of guild wars runing anywhere WTF IS GOING ON?

EiS · Mar 02, 2006, 02:04 AM // 02:04

Have you tried pushing Ctrl-Alt-Delete togher then under the processes see if GW is running

ifuwerepbandj · Mar 02, 2006, 03:57 AM // 03:57

You might have had your account stolen. This happened to me once while I was in game, it kicked me off. So I immediately changed my password. I haven't had the problem again but I am definately scared it might happen.

Tachyon · Mar 02, 2006, 04:01 AM // 04:01

Take a screenshot of the mesage that you're recieving and post it here. Perhaps that may help someone to clarify your situation.

batou · Mar 02, 2006, 04:08 AM // 04:08

probably someone with your account is playing on it from another computer

Red Locust · Mar 02, 2006, 04:22 AM // 04:22

Quit out of GW, press CTRL + ALT + DEL, go to the processes tab (on win xp), find and end all instances of GW.exe. Then start GW again. I get that message regularly, and this always solves my problem.

Opeth11 · Mar 02, 2006, 04:42 AM // 04:42

Actually, this has happened to me quite often. Everytime it happened - 5 times or so now - I just restarted my computer and it was fine. Of course, Red Locust's idea should work, but I havn't tried it so i can't vouche.

And to the replies about someone else using your account, it should not matter, seeing as the problem is the actual STARTING up of Guild Wars.

dargon · Mar 02, 2006, 05:32 AM // 05:32

Uhh guys, he's not in guildwars, he's trying to start it up and windows is telling him that it's already running.

Reboot the computer and try again, if that fails, uninstall guild wars and reinstall it.

Lord Cooper · Mar 02, 2006, 08:34 AM // 08:34

the problem is when you last played guild wars and exited it didnt end all the processes related to it properly. easy fix is to reboot the comp. or just end the processes in task manager as has already been suggested.

Josh · Mar 02, 2006, 04:25 PM // 16:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by dargon

Uhh guys, he's not in guildwars, he's trying to start it up and windows is telling him that it's already running.

Reboot the computer and try again, if that fails, uninstall guild wars and reinstall it.

Uhh we know, but sometimes if you close a program, it still sometimes has the actual Process of it running in the Processing List, and as you can only have 1 Process of Guild Wars running (the tricks of registry editing aside) it won't let him, hold Ctrl, and Alt, press 'Del' and let go and a Windows Task Manager should come up, go on 'Processes', find 'Gw.exe', right-click End Process Tree, OK.

Not listed? Re-Boot.

Update us.

SaucE · Mar 02, 2006, 05:16 PM // 17:16

When ever you are having PC issues, the first thing you always try is REBOOTING THE SYSTEM. 99% of the time it corrects the problem.

Reboot or terminate the GW.exe process like everyone else has mentioned.

Teklord · Mar 02, 2006, 05:22 PM // 17:22

Ah the three R's of computers:

Reboot?
Re-install?
Re-format! (The last, but ultimate fix for non-hardware issues)

Of course some specific problems can be solved by other specific solutions.

Tachyon · Mar 02, 2006, 07:34 PM // 19:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teklord

Ah the three R's of computers:

Reboot?
Re-install?
Re-format! (The last, but ultimate fix for non-hardware issues)

Of course some specific problems can be solved by other specific solutions.

You missed out the fourth, Repair Install.