ok, heres the deal. i do all you say, i click WoW.exe and theres the dark portal. type my username n pass, says all that crap (hand-shaking,connecting...) Then it gos to that knight elf place with the pond and shows the percentige and then says restart and trys to patch me.....
how do i fix???

so all i can just turn off the auto patch downloader option and start downloading the patches one by one right?
can anybody tell me how to turn it off cause i think it isn't working
cheers

Also I am running wow.exe from the installation directory so no mistake of the launcher interfering. its wow itself =(
stupid blizzard...

Reaper, I love and appreciate all the work you've put towards this and other things, tis awesome dude. The one question im sure i will ever have right now is similar to others regarding the "Patch Required" after logging in to the account.

Info so I get the question answered and problem resolved: Realmlist is set to just my ip address. The server is working and I have it succesfully installed and backed to 2.3.3

If i could learn where it learns that it needs a new patch or whatever to access my newly made server (thnx to you) that would be bad ass

hmm, k, it kinda worked, got 2.0.0.6080 now.
and how to manualy update it? o.O

heya, got somekinda prob like that aswell. i havn't played WoW for a damm long time, and now i'm in to a Private Server (PS). the PS only reads upon 2.3.3, and WoW auto installed 2.4.1 i'm runing the repair now, and i hope it will work :)

hey reaper my problem is when i renamed the wow.exe and run repair.exe it checks but says it all is OK so it doesn't revert back the patch :S

If got another problem, everything works fine, but when I patch to 2.3.x I just get an error saying ''Unable to validate game version", If heard this is from a wrong patch or something.. but can anyone link me the correct patches? from 2.0.0? EnUs version

Wow, you're great! Thanks :)

VERY HELPFUL THANK you!

to stop the autoupdates upon login, just open realmlist.wtf (with notepad)and delete "set patchlist us.version.worldofwarcraft.com"

Ok, i resinstalled and then went to updtes til hit v2.3.0 then i stoped it ad set the shortcut to wow.exeand that fixeditfor me

I got the same problem as Keith, i cannot find the wow.exe document but I just changed some random wow launcher or something like that to wowow.exe and now i am running the repair to see if i did the right thing... i am playing on private server but it doesn't wanna run with patch 4.1 sadly!! hate auto installing..!!

Okay look I'm VERY computer illiterate. The wow.exe is in the World of Warcraft files in the Program Files folder right? Okay I click on that and all the WoW files cascade down and I cannot find any files named wow.exe. So where is it?? I'm sooo confused and it all started after the Fury of the Sunwell patch 2.4

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