How to Remove GW 2 from my computer
Control Panel —→ Uninstall a program --→ GuildWars2
Depends where u saved it too. Uninstall program from control panel will only work if u saved it to the default folder when installing the game.
Right click, delete. Literally that.
Technical Support
It would depend on when you originally installed the client as to whether or not it would show up in your installed programs list (such as if you’ve had the same client since Beta). All you need to do is delete the game files and you should be good to go.
I am no longer interested in playing this game. However, I cannot find any way to remove it from my computer short of wiping the hard drive.
Does not show up in the Uninstall folder, does not show up anywhere using Windows Explorer.
In fact, this program is just like a virus, completely hidden from sight and using up valuable space.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
No, it’s not like a virus at all you can easily find it once you know where to look for it.
Do have a shortcut to launch GW2? If so right click on it and select properties. This will bring up a dialog box with the information on where the program is located if you look at the target you’ll see something like this:
“C:\Some location\GW2\gw2.exe”
Copy that, paste it into the address bar in Windows explorer, delete the quotes (") and the gw2.exe and it should look something like this:
C:\Some location\GW2\
and just hit enter. This will bring you to the folder it exists in, you can just delete that folder (there are three files in it, I think, gw2.dat, gw2.exe and gw2.tmp but I’m not 100% sure).
Like most MMOs I don’t believe that GW2 adds anything to the registry as I’ve moved my installation around, over and back between my hard disks and it’s had no problems that’s why it doesn’t appear in the uninstall folder for you (it hasn’t installed formally as such).
If you don’t have a shortcut any more then you’ll have to search your drives for gw2.exe and find the folder that way. In win7 and 8 just bring up Windows Explorer select the root of the drive (check C : D : and so on, you can skip your CD/DVD/BluRay drives) and type gw2.exe into the little box to the right of the address bar and hit enter, it’ll search the entire directory structure for the file.
(edited by Pifil.5193)