Guild Wars 2

Alrighty! I’ve got a couple questions for all you GW2 players out there!

First off, a question about realm population:

I’m from the west coast of North America, and my current realm (Isle of Janthir) is not very populated by people around my timezone; a lot of the people on Isle of Janthir (IoJ) are from Australia / other Oceanic areas, and as a result, I never really have people to play with during the times that I’m awake. I noticed that there are free server changes, and with the recent population cap being raised, I wanted to know if there were any realms that really are based in America. IoJ also doesn’t participate in WvW. You might find a total of 1-2 people on each borderland, but many times you’re alone. I really like WvW, but one man does not make a team. So could anyone give me a suggestion as to which realm I could move to?

TL;DR: I want a realm that’s got a high American population, and also participates in WvW.

Now, my second question!:

I’m running Windows 7, and you know how when a program wants to make changes to your computer, it pops up a little box asking if you want to allow it? Well, every time GW2 comes out with a new build, my computer will start popping up that little box. When it does this, my keyboard can’t change the track on Windows Media Player (WMP) while in-game; I have to minimize, and then hit the button. Now, when the box doesn’t pop up, my keyboard can change the track from in-game no problem. Is there any reason why this would happen, and is there anything I can do to stop this from happening? I really do enjoy listening to my music while playing, but I don’t want to minimize all the time to skip tracks. At the rate A-Net comes out with patches, I have to go through this quite often.

TL;DR: When the security box pops up asking me to allow GW2, my WMP won’t skip tracks from in-game (via keyboard), I have to minimize. How do I stop it?

Thank you for your help!

Tarnished Coast is NA, has a lot of people during EST prime time (my playing time) and my guild has west coasters that keep going past my bed time. It’s an unofficial RP server and has had a real winning streak in WvW of late.

It might be too full to get in but if you do manage it you should not have any problem finding people all over the world.

Hmm, odd, my game client doesn’t pop up the UAC when it updates. Some game launchers trigger that, but not GW2. I can only guess you have your UAC settings up higher, and maybe if you back it down you’ll get around this. I run with my UAC at the first notch up from the bottom which has the (do not dim my desktop) in it. If your UAC is up a level from there at the default where it does dim the desktop, maybe it’s getting hung up in a way. Yes it’s less secure where I run it, but I’m a tech so it doesn’t concern me, I didn’t want the higher level of interruption