[Workaround found] Immediate login failure on Vista-64 since patch -- hardlinked dirs

[ghonosyph]

This^ what mikekim said should fix what issues you have, recreating your sym links after a wow update is mandatory! It sucks less than updating 5 wow folders though (6 in my case lol)

Try it and get back to us!

[Brandish]

Yeah, have re-linked everything into a fresh directory. Problem persists.


Here is my batch file which I run from adminstrator's command.com:

 mklink /d Data "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Data"
mklink /d Cache "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Cache"
md Errors
mklink /d Interface "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Interface"
md Logs
md Screenshots
rem md WTF
mklink "BackgroundDownloader.exe" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\BackgroundDownloader.exe"
mklink "Battle.net.dll" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Battle.net.dll"
mklink "dbghelp.dll" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\dbghelp.dll"
mklink "DivxDecoder.dll" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\DivxDecoder.dll"
mklink "ijl15.dll" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\ijl15.dll"
copy "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Launcher.exe" Launcher.exe
mklink "Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest"
mklink "msvcr80.dll" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\msvcr80.dll"
mklink "Patch.html" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Patch.html"
mklink "Patch.txt" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Patch.txt"
mklink "Repair.exe" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Repair.exe"
mklink "Scan.dll" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Scan.dll"
mklink "unicows.dll" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\unicows.dll"
mklink "Wow.exe" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\Wow.exe"
mklink "WowError.exe" "c:\program files\world of warcraft\WowError.exe"