Client will not run wow.exe

[thkryger]

Hi

I have done two things:
1) Updated to wow to 1.7
2) Moved wow to a different drive

I did the move because i was getting bad sectors on my old harddrive.

Now i cant get the client to start wow.exe.
I have changed the registryentrys to reflect the new path, but it does not work.

What am i missing?

[Annunaki]

Hi,

I hope you did uninstall the game and reinstalled it to the new location. If you didn't then I won't be suprised you will get loads more errors than that ( especially with the WoW Patcher ).

The WoW Installer makes some entries in your registry which point to where your WoW Client is installed. If you simply moved the files, then you have entries in your registry which point to the wrong location by now.

Regards,


Annunaki

[thkryger]

I made a copy of the files in the new location.
Edited the registry.
Renamed the old directory
Ran the game without problems.

The game works just fine. The problem is that the WWNExporter wont start wow.exe from the new location.
I have tried to unistall the exporter and the reinstall it, but i just wont work

[Annunaki]

Hi,

The game runs fine indeed, but you'll have serious problems when a new patch is released. But you don't have to believe me when I say that 'Moving an installed application from one folder to another is asking for troubles on Windows machines'.

During the installation some registry keys are added to the Windows Registry which point to the location where you installed WoW using the Installer. Since you moved it to another spot, those registry keys will now point to a bad location, maybe even a folder / directory which doesn't exist anymore. With the next patch, the blizzard patcher is going to download the patch, and try to update the WoW client which it can find using the Registry Keys I already mentioned. Since the WoW client isn't located at the spot found in the registry, your game will not patch.

And it doesn't stop there, because when you will try to upload stuff using our Client application I'm pretty sure you will be posting a bug report saying that our client doesn't upload your stuff. And that isn't wrong, it will not be able to upload anything because it uses the same registry keys to try to determine where the SavedVarialbes files are located. Is it my fault that it won't work ? Well, not at all, it is because you simply moved all files to another location, and I will have to spend time debugging our client to see what is going wrong, and after some time of debugging I will see that from our side everything should be working, but the files that should be at the location indicated in the registry are simply not there.

In short :

Moving an installed application from one folder to another is asking for troubles on Windows machines