Guild Wars 2

Hi! I figured I should report this because I feel it’s really important…

Operating System: Windows 10 (can provide more PC specs if needed)

Problem:
My gw2-64.exe (I also noticed a gw2-64.rar inside of my gw2 folder when this happened) became corrupted and I had to replace it using this quick-fix method I found with a Google search: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/GW2-setup-won-t-run-Windows-8-1

Here is a recap of the events that happened prior to it crashing:
- turned on computer
- let everything boot up properly
- opened Guild Wars 2
- it was unresponsive for about 2-5 seconds so I clicked it to open it again
- the second instants prompts me with a message saying something along the lines of “you need to have special permissions to open that program”
- I then say okay and get rid of that message (I figured that this popped up because I had attempted to open two instances of Guild Wars 2 from being impatient)
- the first instance of Guild Wars 2 that I told the computer to open finally opens
- I proceed to play Guild Wars 2 normally and close it when I’m done.
- I leave my computer on and don’t turn it off
- 2-5 hours pass
- I come back to the corrupted Guild Wars 2 file and it displays the message “This computer cannot run this app.”
- and that’s where I searched for a fix and found the link I posted above.
- once I fixed the issue, the random gw2-64.rar I saw in the folder disappeared. This rar file had the same bytes as the gw2-64.exe

I wanted to post this step by step how my gw2 became corrupted. I hope this helps with any debugging and feel free to ask any questions because I’d like it if this error didn’t happen to anyone else. The fix is easy, but there’s something unsettling about gw2 suddenly becoming corrupted. At least it seemed like it was just the launcher that was effected.