Patch Day VISTA USERS

[Sun]

Well guys/gals if your like myself you most likely have multiple WOW folders to patch. Once you have one WOW upgraded then VISTA somehow keeps the others from upgrading properly(not like XP). I keep getting an error from Blizz saying I dont need to upgrade because I already have the new WOW.exe version. DUH! Of course I do, but I want the other folders to also have it as well. :S So, here is how you fix it.

Do this in order too...out of sequence and you will still crash.

copy/paste your new data folder to the WOW you want to upgrade.
copy/paste your upgraded WOW.exe to the WOW you want to upgrade.

I open both at the same time so I can see what I copy and what i paste. Just be sure to copy/paste the DATA folder first then the WOW.exe. Works like a charm. Hope this helps anyone with VISTA issues. BTW, I didnt have this problem on my XP laptop.

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ooo by the way....I did ask for help in an earlier post but did not get the help I needed. 8) So, I got the head scratching tool out and figured it out myself... ?( whew :sleeping:

[Naysayer]

Mind if I ask why you have multiple WoW folders?

Also, could you just rename the patched wow.exe to something like wow.exepatched1 while you patched the next one and so on until you're done patching all of them and then revert their names back to normal when finished?

Either way, looks like you're up and running the way you want to be so thumbs up :thumbsup: .

[Knapenburger]

Mind if I ask why you have multiple WoW folders?

Also, could you just rename the patched wow.exe to something like wow.exepatched1 while you patched the next one and so on until you're done patching all of them and then revert their names back to normal when finished?

Either way, looks like you're up and running the way you want to be so thumbs up :thumbsup: .

Some people believe it increases performance.

The only benefit I see is that you can save settings such as framerate etc

[spannah]

I have 5 WoW folders as well, but the Data folder is Symlinked in the 4 clone folders to the main install folder. This allows to have different settings for each instance, and increase performance not mention some extra drive space - each clone folder is about 20 MB.

For updating here is what I do:
1. Launch WoW from the main install folder. This is the one with the full Data folder. This patches the executable and data files. Quit after patching.
2. Copy all the files from the main WoW folder, but NOT the folders, into the clone install folders. You may also skip any of the specific patches and respective downloaders.
3. Launch keyclone and play

[Sarduci]

Some people believe it increases performance.

The only benefit I see is that you can save settings such as framerate etc

Symlinks don't increase speed, they just save space. Symbolic links have never worked that way in any operating system. You're disk drive cache size will affect it more since to the disk drive it's simply referencing the same data on disk which may already be in cache. You'll find an exhaustive set of performance counters that I posted about 6 months ago detailing that exact fact.

Yes, they do allow for some advantages unrelated to speed, like individual settings per WoW folder if done correctly. Outside of that I do not know of any other advantages.

I don't use it since I have one install directory for everything and received slightly better performance on my system that way.

[Korruptor]

Some people believe it increases performance.

The only benefit I see is that you can save settings such as framerate etc

Symlinks don't increase speed, they just save space. Symbolic links have never worked that way in any operating system. You're disk drive cache size will affect it more since to the disk drive it's simply referencing the same data on disk which may already be in cache. You'll find an exhaustive set of performance counters that I posted about 6 months ago detailing that exact fact.

Yes, they do allow for some advantages unrelated to speed, like individual settings per WoW folder if done correctly. Outside of that I do not know of any other advantages.

I don't use it since I have one install directory for everything and received slightly better performance on my system that way.

Sarduci speaks truth.

My setup uses sym links as well and there is only a space savings and simplified the management of settings/macros/addons to show for it. The only performance boost I see is when I run multiple accounts through the same folder, they share the same cache, thus there is a boost in load times.

[Lokked]

So anyways.....

For VISTA users, the answer in simple, and has worked flawlessly for the following setup:

1 Install of WoW, copied XX amount of times to different folders (c:\wow1\ c:\wow2\ etc).

Go to Start Menu
Control Panel
User Accounts
Search in the User Accounts section for an option to turn User Accounts OFF
Allow computer to restart
Go to Filefront and download the patch manually
Copy patch to each of your WoW directories
Double-Click on patch file in each of the WoW directories, allowing it to patch that folder's WoW
Fuel the addiction

[aNiMaL]

Got an error with a wow.exe not being found when i tried updating my main's folder.
I'm not using ntfs junctions or anything, just copied the folders from my old computer

Run as administrator fixed my trouble tho

edit: same goes for my clone folders

[Sun]

at least we have something posted here that others can use....i have tried using symlinks and others...still havent figured out how to do that.

[Bunny]

Thank you for the thread and the information provided. It saved me a lot of time yesterday.