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Windower taking 10+ mins to launch
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By Drayco 2020-09-19 07:11:27
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Anybody know what could be going on? My Windower is taking forever to load up. It hangs on both the opening splash and the solid green loading screen. Once it allows me to pick my profile, it launches PoL instantly.

AFAIK nothing has changed on my PC unless Windows 10 did an update I wasn't aware of.
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By Pantafernando 2020-09-19 08:01:43
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It takes long for updating windower?

You can try momentarily turn off internet to force its main screen, then turn on.
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By Asura.Cambion 2020-09-19 10:03:45
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Sometime mine gets stuck too. Just close it and re-open it. Has worked every time for me so far.
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By Lakshmi.Elidyr 2020-09-19 14:21:32
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I had to do it this morning. I restarted windows, and it corrected. Happens occasionally after I update windows or something.
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By fltraceur87 2020-11-26 09:45:06
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this happens everytime i boot up my computer. open up windower, click on my profile, windower gets stuck trying to launch the game.
i ,then, have to close windower, open it back up and it will launch the game just fine. it started doing this only a few months ago.
i've try uninstalling windower and reinstall but it still does it.
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By ultraz 2020-11-26 10:33:12
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same issue here. will get stuck at "Launching Playonline " screen. I have to force close the program again and it will get through no problem the next time.
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By Bismarck.Batton 2020-11-26 12:55:59
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Typically when I have this issue, I have a Windows Update pending.. reboot 1 (or 2) times after updates.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2020-11-26 13:12:57
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I'm no computing wizard, but I've noticed that it may be related to rundll32.exe, which apparently is a necessary component to run Windower. When you first boot up your computer it may not be active depending on your setup. Launching Windower activates it, but it gets stuck on the first launch.
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By Jetackuu 2020-11-26 13:17:56
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inquiry: which version of windows?
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By ultraz 2020-11-27 12:02:43
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Windows 7 Ultimate for me
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By Jetackuu 2020-11-27 14:32:07
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ultraz said: »
Windows 7 Ultimate for me
read this https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/53776/windows7-framerate-drops-this-month-read/
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By ultraz 2020-11-28 11:47:45
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Jetackuu said: »


Appreciate the reply. I read the thread and checked the cpu usage and rundll32 this morning and it doesn't appear that's the culprit. CPU usage at 0% and rundll32 is using about 4mb of memories. I've never had that problem before until the last FFXI update earlier this month.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2020-11-28 11:51:04
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ultraz said: »
Jetackuu said: »


Appreciate the reply. I read the thread and checked the cpu usage and rundll32 this morning and it doesn't appear that's the culprit. CPU usage at 0% and rundll32 is using about 4mb of memories. I've never had that problem before until the last FFXI update earlier this month.

I've had the "can't boot unless rundll32 is up first" thing for months, but it's good to know that there are other potential culprits to look into.
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By Jetackuu 2020-11-28 12:18:04
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ultraz said: »
Jetackuu said: »


Appreciate the reply. I read the thread and checked the cpu usage and rundll32 this morning and it doesn't appear that's the culprit. CPU usage at 0% and rundll32 is using about 4mb of memories. I've never had that problem before until the last FFXI update earlier this month.

I think you missed the point of the thread.
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By Lehmie 2020-12-07 14:28:37
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Hello, i got the same problem. Everytime i logged my first Char on, only the basic programms from windower loads. After 1-2 minutes the other windower programs loading in the game. First then these programms loading, i can logged with windower my 2nd/3rd char.
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