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Old 08-27-2008   #1 (permalink)


Windows Vista™ Ultimate x64
 
 

[TIP] World Of Warcraft Installation/Update errors

Hey guys, just incase anyone ever encounters a problem when installing WoW or updating, I think you should know that temporarily disabling UAC could possibly be a solution as this was mine. The updater/installer didn't have permission and was failing. Although it had to be a stupid error code which was like cant open file which indicated nothing about no write permission. To me anyway.

WoW re-installed and patched and kicking butt woo woo!

Hope this helps someone some day

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Old 08-27-2008   #2 (permalink)


Windows Vista™ Ultimate
 
 

Re: [TIP] World Of Warcraft Installation/Update errors

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by Fmjc001 View Post
Hey guys, just incase anyone ever encounters a problem when installing WoW or updating, I think you should know that temporarily disabling UAC could possibly be a solution as this was mine. The updater/installer didn't have permission and was failing. Although it had to be a stupid error code which was like cant open file which indicated nothing about no write permission. To me anyway.

WoW re-installed and patched and kicking butt woo woo!

Hope this helps someone some day
You can just right-click and run the updater as "RunAsAdmin" without disabling UAC
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Old 08-28-2008   #3 (permalink)


Windows Vista™ Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: [TIP] World Of Warcraft Installation/Update errors

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by dmex View Post
Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by Fmjc001 View Post
Hey guys, just incase anyone ever encounters a problem when installing WoW or updating, I think you should know that temporarily disabling UAC could possibly be a solution as this was mine. The updater/installer didn't have permission and was failing. Although it had to be a stupid error code which was like cant open file which indicated nothing about no write permission. To me anyway.

WoW re-installed and patched and kicking butt woo woo!

Hope this helps someone some day
You can just right-click and run the updater as "RunAsAdmin" without disabling UAC
Actuly no, you cant

When installing you run as admin and still get the error. When updating the game updates itself, you dont have a choice.

Well I didnt anyway.
My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 08-28-2008   #4 (permalink)


Windows Vista™ Ultimate
 
 

Re: [TIP] World Of Warcraft Installation/Update errors

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by Fmjc001 View Post

Actuly no, you cant

When installing you run as admin and still get the error. When updating the game updates itself, you dont have a choice.

Well I didnt anyway.
I just set both wow and the updater to run as admin by the Compatibility tab under properties, thats how I got it to update and play properly...unless they changed something very recently
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Old 08-28-2008   #5 (permalink)


Windows Vista™ Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: [TIP] World Of Warcraft Installation/Update errors

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by dmex View Post
Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by Fmjc001 View Post

Actuly no, you cant

When installing you run as admin and still get the error. When updating the game updates itself, you dont have a choice.

Well I didnt anyway.
I just set both wow and the updater to run as admin by the Compatibility tab under properties, thats how I got it to update and play properly...unless they changed something very recently
I set the game to run as admin. I also tried it on the Administrator account and still didnt work. The only way I could do it was disabling UAC
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