Information being saved in C:\Users directory?

[Aradar]

what stuff is being put in your c:\users ?
ever since vista i've seen wow putting it's patch data in the users\public folders, but nothing else.
and tbh, if you have various users on your computer, and each has his own install of wow.... this will save you bandwith, so not too bad after all.

It will sometimes resort to creating other directories there as well such as Interface, Cache, WTF, etc.

My brother had the same issue with Vista, so I had him move his WoW folder outside of the protected Program Files directory. This allowed his settings/patches to be saved to the WoW folder again. I have all my copies of the WoW directory under C:\Games\ and that works without any issues on Vista.

Sound advice. I have done the same thing with no problems on Vista.

This is the key to fixing 90% of the Vista issues. Until they write a Vista UAC compatible version of the game, this makes patch days EZmode.

Well after trying to install basic WoW and TBC and then do updates I ran into more errors so tonight I will try this suggestion. I figured out last night it probably had to do with administrator privileges and was going to try to make sure I ran everything as administrator which I will still do but under this directory. Thanks.