I can't reinstall my Guild Wars!!!

Merciless Paladin

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

The Nutcrakerz [Nutz]

W/Mo

I uninstalled Guild Wars one day and then tried to reinstall it later but it didnt install. My computer has all the correct spec.s and it still wont install. Can u guys help!? If it helps this is the message that appears when i try to install it:

Quote From Dialog Box:

"Already Running

Guild Wars is unable to start because another copy is already
running on this computer, or becuase the application has
insufficient rights to successfully detect whether another copy is
already running on this computer."

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

[ROSE]

A/

Press ctrl alt delete and see if there is a gw.exe already running. Close that down if so.

Edge Of Malan

Edge Of Malan

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

USA

New England Terror (NET)

W/N

If he uninstalled correctly (plenty of people don't know the correct way to uninstall a program) there should not be an instance of guildwars running. What this message sounds to me like is he's not logged in as administrator and therefor the guildwars install isn't able to check whether guildwars is installed or not.

If this is your parents pc, have them log in and install it.

BlekMagus

BlekMagus

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Nov 2006

Omega Guild

N/

Whenever I run into similar problems by not being able to reinstall programs, often the solution is cleaning the registry. Sometimes the registry entries are not cleared and the install wizard detects the sofware as still being present.

Get some registry cleaner.