I’m gonna agree, there needs to be an official solution to this. I also uninstalled the game on this laptop since I mostly play on my desktop now, and even then the game uninstalled so quickly unlike other games. It was pretty fishy, but I didn’t think anything of it. When I try to reinstall it though, it just freezes with the installer stuck at 0 KB/sec.
Right now I’m attempting the solution of renaming the setup as Gw2.exe and installing it that way and it seems to be working, but from this thread it seems like this is a pretty terrible way of doing it.
Some official words from an ANet employee on this issue would be nice.
TL;DR Uninstalled the game. Tried to reinstall and it’s stuck on the setup at 0KB. Trying the solution of renaming the setup to Gw2.exe.