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Windower not enabled.. any ideas?
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By Checkmeout 2013-01-19 09:03:24
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New to windower... everytime I launch it keeps launching POL and not enabling through window mode... I have unistalled and installed again a couple of times but still nothing... any ideas on how to fix this? running on windows 7
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By Asura.Tamoa 2013-01-19 09:18:12
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Sounds to me like you're starting the game by clicking on POL and not on Windower launcher?
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By Checkmeout 2013-01-19 09:19:03
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im launching through the windower but it keeps opening up POL..
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By Asura.Tamoa 2013-01-19 09:22:31
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Err - yeah it's supposed to do that, it'll say "PlayOnline Viewer ver. 1.blahblah - Windower enabled" if you've installed Windower correctly and if you're starting it correctly.
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By Checkmeout 2013-01-19 09:32:59
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reinstalling again...
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By Aeyela 2013-01-19 09:35:54
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Right click Windower and click Run as Administrator. If you don't Windower can't hook to Play Online and Play Online opens instead.
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By Checkmeout 2013-01-19 09:44:45
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yea I did that and i keep getting the same results.. POL keeps opening instead of windower
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By Bismarck.Snprphnx 2013-01-19 09:48:43
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Are you clicking a shortcut of the windower icon. I had this problem a little while back. For some reason, it wouldn't run windower enabled with a shortcut. I had to drag the original icon to my desktop. Or something along those lines.
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By Artemicion 2013-01-19 09:49:30
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Disable UAC if you haven't already.
Also make sure your FFXI directory is within the same hard drive as where the windower is located as well.
Also if you just freshly installed FFXI, you may need to log in without the windower once to enable certain registry entries; which the windower may or may not rely on.
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By Jetackuu 2013-01-19 09:56:24
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1. windower is supposed to open playonline...

2. if you want to open the windower gui then you have to click on the windower gui.

there's a launcher.exe

and a launcher_gui.exe

the later opens up the gui for windower, it's not really needed though if you have your settings saved.
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By Checkmeout 2013-01-19 10:10:51
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thanks all. i got it now.. i had to move the folder for some strange reason
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By Checkmeout 2013-01-19 10:26:10
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ok i got it now.. but here is my next issue.. when i download the spellcast and autoexec. plugins and begin to start windower again it says "Resourses failed to read areas" on the screen where they talk about the crystal, right before i get to the character selection screen
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