How to revert to previous WoW Patch
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It seems some people have been asking on how to revert their wow installation to the previous patch (in this case into 2.1.3 from 2.2 patch), and still haven’t found the exact answer to their question and so that’s why i’m going to write a short how to revert your wow patch
Requirements :
1. Repair.exe in your WoW Installation Directory
2. A working internet connection
3. Individual patch for each update you’re going to apply (like below image for an example) …
4. Ability to delete or rename files :P
Here are the steps :
1. Rename wow.exe inside your World of Warcraft Installation Directory into something else (like wowowow.exe)
2. Run the repair.exe and let it do the job to check your WoW Installation for corrupted files
3. After finished checking, it’ll find that there’s something missing from your WoW installation and then it’ll download the missing file automatically and in my case because i want to revert from 2.2 into 2.1.3, it’ll automatically revert to 2.0.0
4. Now to make sure that our wow version already reverted into 2.0.0, you just need to run the wow.exe (not the launcher or the pop up screen) and see the version number at the bottom left of your screen
5. Okay since we’ve reverted to 2.0.0 and want to get back on using 2.1.3, all we have to do is just running the individual update patch manually from 2.0.0 into 2.1.3 (see the above image), and don’t forget to press escape immediately when the wow launcher screen pop-up to cancel the launcher from updating your wow installation automatically
6. After finished patching your wow into 2.1.3 again now you need to run the wow.exe again to make sure that you’re already back into using the previous 2.1.3 installation … then exit from wow
7. You’re done ;)
Things to note :
It seems that World of Warcraft love changing your wow shortcut (even if you created it by yourself) on your desktop if you just upgraded your wow patch. And in my case, i have two shortcut located on my desktop :
The first one is the World of Warcraft launcher, while the second is to run the wow.exe directly … and guess what ? after i’ve installed the 2.2 patch the second shortcut that previously point to wow.exe directly got changed by WoW automatically so it’s pointing to the launcher instead
So … your best bet is … to run the WoW.exe directly from your World of Warcraft installation directory to prevent wow from automatically patching your game
Note : Actually since i’m still using a slow connection it doesn’t really a big deal for me because i can cancel the update process from the launcher anytime i want … but to those who’s using a fast connection, i know your pain very well (i guess slow connection is not that bad at all) :P
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skywalker Jul 14, 2010 at 9:16 PM
I have problem with wow repair it says it cant connect to server to download repair information but i can connect to internet
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You would think that they world have OKd it at da beginning instead of allowing it to go so long without saying a thing and then bringing it back up when it was too late. myself dont understand it at all.
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Juovz Oct 24, 2009 at 6:56 PM
thank you so much!
Pedro Aug 13, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Reaper, how can i return to 3.1.3 version of wow(i am one of these that installed the 3.2..)
brandon reaper-x.com/2007/09/29/how-to-revert-to-previous-wow-patch/ May 24, 2009 at 5:25 AM
ha i did the repair but i still have the same upated one instead of 2.0
mtgplayer Apr 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Im getting into a wow PS not this one but are having similar problems as for the ones when they first try to launch the game it wants to update but i did not want it to update so i canceled. went into the wow folder threw out the update folder and the downloader that was trying to update to the new version that i did not want. Then right click your short cut icon and go properties because you may not of noticed it but it likes changing from “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe” which is what i set it as what i wanted, back to the launcher which will run you back into the auto update problem again. But now I am able to get to the log in screen but the PS forums that i had to make a account for epic fails and i can’t currently make a account there ><