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Windower Crash when trying to view/open text files
 Asura.Hallieweezie
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By Asura.Hallieweezie 2020-06-12 14:56:25
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Hey guys, I've recently been having an issue with Windower closing when I try to open/view text files. I'm not Dc'ing, it just completely closes out of the game. I can open links, go to web browser etc, but the second I click a file (in my downloads folder, for example) it's instant boot. One of my LS mates was having this issue a few months back, and was never able to figure it out. I've ran a check file, and uninstalled/reinstalled and it's still doing the same thing. UAC is set to not blink, so it's not that either. I'm on windows 10. Has anyone seen this before?
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By SkyFrog 2020-06-12 15:06:14
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I don't use Windower, but for any crashes you can look in the Windows Event View via Windows+R and typing eventvwr.msc

Look inside Event Viewer (Local) -> Windows Logs -> Application
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By Jetackuu 2020-06-12 15:07:35
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probably better off getting a dump report and asking on the windower discord, but honestly it sounds like you may need to reinstall windows.
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By Fenrir.Orn 2020-06-12 15:11:44
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Has this always happened for you? Are you opening Windower in administrator mode? I had this issue ta while ago whenever I would try to edit my gearswap file it would cause the game to close. I ended up having to switch my gearswap file shortly after because of an unrelated error, me being dumb and making a mistake while editing and not being able to fix it, once I switched to the different version of gearswap I never had the issue again. I would check with you LS members and see what lua/gearswap files they are using and possibly switch.

Hope this is of some help, have a great day.
 Asura.Hallieweezie
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By Asura.Hallieweezie 2020-06-12 15:23:43
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No, I've been playing for years and have never had an issue like this. I always Run as Administrator when opening Windower as well. I'm not even getting the chance to open the files. The second I click on it (Before I can select open, copy, paste, rename etc) it boots me.
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By eeternal 2020-06-12 21:16:05
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I've had the same issues but as soon as I switched the txt files to details from view > details.. it worked.
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