Guild Wars 2

So before the Tuesday (Jan. 13th) update, everything was fine and the windows 8.1 UAC wouldn’t pop up when launching GW2. When I tried to download the update the moment the patch was up, of course there were server issues so I couldn’t properly update. I thought it was no problem so I opened the task manager and closed the GW2 application and all processes associated with it since I kept on getting connection errors and clicking the “x” button wouldn’t close the launcher.

That’s when the UAC started popping up. Now everytime I launch GW2, the annoying UAC window pops up asking if I want to allow GW2 to make changes. So far, I have tried a repair install and updating my graphics card drivers. As for uninstalling and reinstalling GW2, my current internet connection would mean it would take days for me to redownload all the data.

Does anyone have any advice or know what to do?

DanteZero.9736:

So before the Tuesday (Jan. 13th) update, everything was fine and the windows 8.1 UAC wouldn’t pop up when launching GW2. When I tried to download the update the moment the patch was up, of course there were server issues so I couldn’t properly update. I thought it was no problem so I opened the task manager and closed the GW2 application and all processes associated with it since I kept on getting connection errors and clicking the “x” button wouldn’t close the launcher.

That’s when the UAC started popping up. Now everytime I launch GW2, the annoying UAC window pops up asking if I want to allow GW2 to make changes. So far, I have tried a repair install and updating my graphics card drivers. As for uninstalling and reinstalling GW2, my current internet connection would mean it would take days for me to redownload all the data.

Does anyone have any advice or know what to do?

Make sure you are not running GW2 with admin privileges. There is a check box for it under the shortcut/exe compatibility properties. That will trigger the UAC every time, unless you disable the UAC.

How is your windows UAC settings an Anet / GW2 issue? Run as Admin or disable UAC.