Oddly enough, the desktop shortcut doesn't work on my computer. Doubleclicking the exe in the SWGEmu folder works fine though.
I did that, but the launchpad doesn't work flawless after that. It puts 4 dll files on my desktop (Exceed.dll among others) and shows an error window. When I close the error window, the launchpad starts and I can log into the game. I think I'll stick with doubleclicking the swgemu.exe in the SWGEmu folder