2.3 not installing on your vista machine? look here

[The IT Monkey]

Hey,
Just thought I would share.
My brother runs vista and was having a problem installing the patch.

It won't install the patch, just runs through the download and then closes.

Even though his account is an admin account he had to right click on the icon and select "Run as Admin". That fixed his problem.


Got mine to start installing patch. Had to right click on icon and select run as admin... even though I am an admin user. Fucking vista. Luckily I found it on the forums... other users NOT blue of course

If anyone is having problems I hope this helps.

[Stealthy]

You can also go into the Patches directory in your WoW folder, select the appropraite patch and click on the Bnet updater program, and the patch will install.

Cheers,
Stealthy

[Stealthy]

Haha dun blame Microsoft for Blizzard's inability to code their patching tools...

[Otlecs]

In this case, the error will have been returned to Blizzard's application code following the failure of an API call of some sort. Blizzard are failing to generate the error message. Just sloppy error handling (the "this can never fail" mentality).

I'll find out tonight if this affects me (two of my five actively used machines run Vista with no problems), so thanks very much for posting the heads-up.

[Remote]

I just disabled that crap in the local group policy. You might as well, it causes more irritation than anything else.

[ZubZero]

Yeah this is blizzard's mistake, they should make their patcher ask for admin rights in Vista.

For those who dont know this yet, the UAC feature in Vista is awesome. You can log in as a administrator but when doing your regular work you dont have admin rights, but once a program tries to do a thing that requires admin rights the UAC prompts the user asking if this program can have admin rights. (If the user that is logged in is not an admin it asks for login and password of an admin account). This way you beat alot of viruses and trojans.

So whenever you do something like patching, installing etc. and it fails. Try again with "Run as admin".

This feature can be disabled but I strongly advise to keep it on!

[kermitforney]

In this case, the error will have been returned to Blizzard's application code following the failure of an API call of some sort. Blizzard are failing to generate the error message. Just sloppy error handling (the "this can never fail" mentality).

I'll find out tonight if this affects me (two of my five actively used machines run Vista with no problems), so thanks very much for posting the heads-up.

Yeah, Error Handling AKA Basic Programming 101. :o/

I think it's a safe bet that WOW is not optimized for Vista besides, ". . the it's working isn't it" explanation.

Damn you Otlecs! I keep reading your name with the letters transposed!! Keep seeing Oltecs as in the indians. lolol :)