[TIP] World Of Warcraft Installation/Update errors

[PainlessTorture]

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

 

[dmex]

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

 

[PainlessTorture]

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.

 

[dmex]

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

 

[PainlessTorture]

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