WOW install question

FishPolice · 26 Apr 2008 at 22:00

Somehow I have managed to get my missus interested in having a go on WOW. (yeah I know, who's gonna feed us now?)
Anyway I've got a 10 day guest pass so thought about installing WOW on her laptop. Thing is, we've got a slowish 1mb connection here & it's gonna take ages to patch it up. Can I just copy across the patches in my WOW directory to her installation folder and patch it from there?

TheMagic1an · 26 Apr 2008 at 22:12

yeah i think it should be ok to do that. The patches are usually backed up in the directory anyway.

ganesh · 26 Apr 2008 at 22:13

yes you can.

Timdog · 26 Apr 2008 at 23:59

you can actually just copy the entire WoW folder in program files across and not even need to reinstall it

kola · 27 Apr 2008 at 14:02

Timdog plz and thanks said:
you can actually just copy the entire WoW folder in program files across and not even need to reinstall it

What he said

^

Mercutio · 27 Apr 2008 at 17:24

ill add a bit to that (as laptops can be low on space) if you go in the /wow/wtf folder you'll find all the saved settings for your addons. If she's playing without addons the folder can be cleared out. Was about 40MB on mine, not huge but its wasted space

Mercutio · 27 Apr 2008 at 17:26

The only downside with the above is come wrath i belive it does then need some indication it's installed - I might be wrong tho, dont remember what it was like for TBC.

Ace Modder · 27 Apr 2008 at 17:56

no, wow doesnt need any registry logs entered, just copy the folder and play away

<Dubz> · 27 Apr 2008 at 20:46

yup, saves a lot of time when formatting, i just drag it to backup and the pull back after format. Dont have to redo my UI everytime then!