Tray & Shortcuts

System tray

GW Launcher lives in the system tray (next to the clock). The main window hides itself when it loses focus rather than cluttering your taskbar.

• Left-click the tray icon to bring the window back.
• Right-click the tray icon to open it and keep it pinned open.

Want it to start hidden? Enable Launch minimized in Settings — useful if you launch GW Launcher on Windows startup.

Desktop shortcuts

Create a shortcut that launches one specific account with a single double-click — no need to open the launcher window first:

This drops a <Account Name>.lnk on your Desktop. Double-clicking it runs GW Launcher with -launch "<Account Name>", which launches just that account and then gets out of the way.

Command line

The shortcut uses the same flag you can run yourself:

GW_Launcher.exe -launch "Account Name"

Handy for batch files or other launchers that want to start a specific Guild Wars account.