Update/Anet connection not working

I'm having a problem, where when you launch the launcher and wait for any misc. updates/or just connect to the client.

It's been 4 hours, and it still hasn't done anything. It still remains a flat 0, and I don't know what to do.

For the people who don't know what I'm talking about, it's this



I've gotten this for 4 hours. Nothing has happened, and I want to play Gw.

I have Vista, I tried running as adminstrator.

Firewall is off.

UAC is off (try turning it back on)?

What do I do? Please help!

Have you tried just reinstalling? Has it worked before?

UAC should not affect this in any way.

Haven't tried re-installing.

I'll go dig up my Nightfall disk. Do I need prophecies disk as well?

No, nightfall will be fine.

If you have NOD32 Anti-Virus installed, it's owning your face.

it dont matter what disc you use allthe disc has is a link for it to get the downloader , there for each disc will do the same thing, you don tneed disc at all to install

go to www.guildwars.com and click download game client, that is allyou need and what on every disc, i use to have this issue and it was windows defender and norton anti virus doing this to me

I have Norton and Windows Defender on. I'll go ahead and re-install while turning them off.