Guild Wars 2

I cannot change the shortcut to Repair in the Properties menu. I typed the “-repair” in as it was shown in the instructions and then tried including it between the parentheses. Each time my computer just says it isn’t valid and will not allow me to change it.

Hmm, have a feeling you are doing it wrong, I’ll just post a screenshot on how it should look like. (note the path to the game may or may not be the same for everyone)

The most common mistake is failing to include a ‘space’ between the end quotes " and the -repair argument. The path will be invalid without the space separating the path and the argument as it will be seeing the entire line of continuous text as specifying the path instead of a path followed by an argument.

• Close your game/launcher completely
• Right-click your game shortcut and select ‘Properties’
• On the ‘Shortcut’ tab, the first line says “Target:”, immediately after the end quotation mark in this field, put a space and then add -repair
  It will look like this (but with your installation location):
  “F:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair
• Again, make sure there is a space between the " and -repair
• Hit OK and save this change to the shortcut properties.
• Run the shortcut and it’ll repair the game files if any are damaged.
• After the repair is finished, close the launcher, remove the -repair argument that you added (including the space) and save this change to the shortcut properties again.
• Run the game as normal to see if it’s fixed.

(it is likely that the repair will dip into the ‘not responding’ state often, but it should finish properly after a few minutes or so, but a repair may take up to about 30 minutes to complete depending on your system specs)

Thank you, that seems to work.