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From http://forums.wow-Europe.com/thread.HTML?topicId=9163977331&Sid=1, post #5...

IN answer to your question:

World of Warcraft installs to: "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft"

The Burnign Crusade installs to: "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft"

Wrath of the Lich King moves the WoW folder and installs to: "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft"

It apparently advises you to do this to prevent problems with patching.

So in short, just install everything to its default place - the Wotlk installer will move folders where it needs to when you get to that point.

I'm in the middle of installing WOW from scratch on Windows 7 RTM as I write this. The only Issue I had was, when installing vanilla WoW, it create a C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft, but then couldn't write into it. When I opened Windows Explorer and right-clicked on the folder, and selected Properties, the 'Read Only' checkbox was checked. I made it read/write, then re-ran the installer, and so far, vanilla WoW is installed, Burning Crussade installed, and Wrath of the Lich King is installing.

As the post that I quoted above states, the Wrath of the Lich King installer will ask to move WoW from C:\Program Files, and I let it.

Oh, and I'm installing this all under an Administrator account.

You install it like you would any other game on a previous operating system... There is a nice FAQ on how to do this, you can find it on http://www.hiddenstuff.com/

Hope this helps!

First, this person who entered the answer above just wanted to drive people to his site because www.hiddenstuff.com has nothing about installing World of Warcraft on it. The word "install" is not on the page.

Second, the answer above is wrong in that Vista/Windows 7 is not like other Windows operating systems because unlike previous versions of Windows, you do not have access to the Program Files folder except as Administrator. It is being treated like a restricted operating system folder. That makes installing and updates difficult since World of Warcraft installs there, but then won't let any files be updated when doing updates.

Again, unlike what the first poster said, it isn't like installing on any previous operating system. It is actually a mixture of two operating systems. Windows Vista and Windows 7, the operating system I am using now, have made changes to be more like Linux. The way they have become more like Linux is that they have a Users folder. In Linux there is a "usr" directory, which is for user-related binaries. This is not where users have their home directory, unless there is a sub-directory /usr/home. Typically, administrators will create a /home directory where users' files are stored.

In Windows 7 and Windows Vista, you have a folder that acts as your home folder and that is located in the Users folder and it is your user name, so mine would be c:\Users\Raiderwolf. So Microsoft changed their file structure to better isolate the operating system files and the operational files of the programs. (again to make WIndows more Linux-like) But to sum it up, for you to be able to install World of Warcraft and receive updates, I would recommend creating a "Games" folder in your user folder and install World of Warcraft there and then you can set permissions on that folder however you like to secure it. Or if you will have more than one person playing on that computer, you could create a new Program Files folder in the Users folder and install it there.

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