I have no exe to launch EQII, win 7

[Zehl_Ice-Fire]

<p>I was using LP1 so I had to get the correct one with this installer: <a href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe</a></p><p><span ><span>I got the new LP installed, on my Vista 64 desktop it created a shortcut on my desktop to EverQuest IILaunchPad.exe to start EQII which works ok.</span></span></p><p><span ><span>But, on my Win 7 laptop (ran the same updater) it did not create a shortcut and the LaunchPad.exe I have there opens the winamp thing and I have no way to open the game on the Win 7 machine. There is no .exe file in my EQII folder that was modified that works. I tried every one that's there and they all are not it. I'm unable to launch it on my laptop at all other than the initial install.</span></span></p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p><cite>Zehl_Ice-Fire wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I was using LP1 so I had to get the correct one with this installer: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe" target="_blank">http://launch.soe.com/installer/EQ2_setup.exe</a></p><p><span><span>I got the new LP installed, on my Vista 64 desktop it created a shortcut on my desktop to EverQuest IILaunchPad.exe to start EQII which works ok.</span></span></p><p><span><span>But, on my Win 7 laptop (ran the same updater) it did not create a shortcut and the LaunchPad.exe I have there opens the winamp thing and I have no way to open the game on the Win 7 machine. There is no .exe file in my EQII folder that was modified that works. I tried every one that's there and they all are not it. I'm unable to launch it on my laptop at all other than the initial install.</span></span></p></blockquote><p>Did you set the install paths yourself?</p><p>If not, the default folder is C:UsersPublicSony Online EntertainmentInstalled gamesEverquest II</p><p>Double check the LaunchPad.exe there and you may need to create a new shortcut</p>

[Zehl_Ice-Fire]

<p><cite>TSR-JoshuaM wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Did you set the install paths yourself?</p><p>If not, the default folder is C:UsersPublicSony Online EntertainmentInstalled gamesEverquest II</p><p>Double check the LaunchPad.exe there and you may need to create a new shortcut</p></blockquote><p>Since I have had Win 7 I have installed EQII to c:GamesSOEEverQuest II, which is also where I directed the EQ2_Setup.exe to do its thing today. I checked all the other possible places it could have landed and nothing is there (not even any SOE folders).</p>

[Zehl_Ice-Fire]

<p>Solved.</p><p>For kicks I tried deleting the exisiting LaunchPad.exe and re-running EQ2_setup.exe. This time it added the new correct launcher exe but still did not create a shortcut like my Vista machine did, I have to do it manually in Windows 7.</p>

[Therendil]

<p>I wonder if there is something a bit weird about LP upgrades on Win7.  My win7 setup is identical to yours, and my LP1->LP4 update misfired. I was able to fix it by copying launchpad.exe from a setup that had upgraded correctly.</p><p>-= Therendil =-</p>

[Zehl_Ice-Fire]

<p>All LP1s on all windows ended up getting turned into an even older LP, I can't tell you why, I'm baffled by it, they knew many people still use LP1 and claimed they had programmed for it.</p><p><cite>Therendil wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I wonder if there is something a bit weird about LP upgrades on Win7.  My win7 setup is identical to yours, and my LP1->LP4 update misfired. I was able to fix it by copying launchpad.exe from a setup that had upgraded correctly.</p><p>-= Therendil =-</p></blockquote>

[Therendil]

<p>Weird. I actually had the LP1->LP4 upgrade work at first. It broke when I changed the shortcut to point to launchpad.exe instead of eq2.exe.</p><p>-= Therendil =-</p>

[DanKinney]

<p><cite>Zehl_Ice-Fire wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Solved.</p><p>For kicks I tried deleting the exisiting LaunchPad.exe and re-running EQ2_setup.exe. This time it added the new correct launcher exe but still did not create a shortcut like my Vista machine did, I have to do it manually in Windows 7.</p></blockquote><p>We do have some logic in the installer system that will no create a shortcut if it thinks that it was already done and deleted.</p><p>-dan</p>