Windows 7, symlinking, windowed mode

Finally rebuilt my computer, went quad core Phenom II, moved up to an SATA drive from the 2 EIDE drives I used to quad box on with 32 bit XP pro.

Got 8 GB going into the box tomorrow since my new W7 RC1 can handle it.

Now symlinking, that's the next item up for bid.

I've encountered some headaches in drivers and having to install some software as vista 64 and then use compatibility mode.

In reading through a bunch of the symlink threads, I think this is the cleanest idiot-proof directions I can find to symlink from this link

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I gave up on the Powershell deal....I did a forum search for Symlink. The very first result will be Symlink Help. Look at that post and you'll find a link to a different program that helps with the associations. Here's what I did:


1.Downloaded and installed the program.

2.Created copies of my main Warcraft folder (I ended up with World of Warcraft, WoW2, WoW3, WoW4, WoW5 all on my E:\ drive)

3.Navigate to your copies and DELETE your Data and Interface folders

4.Navigate to your main World of Warcraft folder and Control Left Click your Data and Interface folders

5.Right click on one of your highlighted folders (should be Data or Interface)

6.Choose Pick Link Source

7.Navigate to one of your copies (ie. WoW2) and right click on the folder

8.Choose Drop As...Symbolic Link

9.Repeat 4-8 until you've created the symbolic links for all your copies

Now you should have a main World of Warcraft folder with 4 copies that use the Data and Interface folders from the main. I linked the interface folder to use the same mods on all accounts. You can just link the Data folder if you prefer different mods on each.

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Will this approach be viable for Windows 7?

Also, depending on which multicast software I use I'll have to run copies in windowed mode, but when I single box and raid I play on full screen mode. Should I make a separate Wow folder, whether symlinked or not, to keep those settings so I'm not constantly reconfiguring?

Once I have the symlinks set up, am I understanding that I just launch the copies from keyclone or what have you as I used to with 4 full folder copies in the past?

And I guess once the links are set up right, I pretty much never have to touch the extra folders, since the patching happens in the main folder and when I update addons I only do it one place. Correct?


I'm not much of a script guy, I'm a dilettante tinker, so the simpler the better :) And I'm moving very slowly on anything on Win7

I used the way you quoted from that other thread. It still works in win7. As far as how many folders you want it's up to you really. The way I looked at it is one folder for each configuration you want. So if you play full screen with your main and things are different than your team you will want one for him and the rest. I used my "main" folder as the root (not sure what it's called when linking) and just linked the other folders to it. I setup keyclone to launch from each folder. After that you should be good to go. The only time I mess with the other folders is when there is a patch. Other than that I haven't had to mess with them at all.

BTW imho win7 is just flat out one of the best window's they have ever made. Runs so much smoother. I hope they keep it as streamlined as it is right now at release and dont add a bunch of crap. I think you will be pleased =)