[TIP] World Of Warcraft Installation/Update errors

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PainlessTorture

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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! :geek:

Hope this helps someone some day :)
 

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Fmjc001 said:
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! :geek:

Hope this helps someone some day :)
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You can just right-click and run the updater as "RunAsAdmin" without disabling UAC :sarc:
 

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dmex said:
Fmjc001 said:
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! :geek:

Hope this helps someone some day :)
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You can just right-click and run the updater as "RunAsAdmin" without disabling UAC :sarc:
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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.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett Packard
    CPU
    3.40Ghz / 2.20Gz Duo Core
    Memory
    2GB / 3GB
    Hard Drives
    160 GB / 160 GB
Fmjc001 said:
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.
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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 :shock:
 

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dmex said:
Fmjc001 said:
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.
Click to expand...

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 :shock:
Click to expand...

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 :(
 

My Computer

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Hewlett Packard
    CPU
    3.40Ghz / 2.20Gz Duo Core
    Memory
    2GB / 3GB
    Hard Drives
    160 GB / 160 GB
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