havin to re install/patch problems any ideas

Dukebox

anyone out there HELP


every time (once a week) warcraft gets updated i have to re install the whole of warcraft, i click on the shortcut on my desktop and the box in the middle of the screen comes up as usual, in the very right hand corner it says downloading new patch and zips through the numbers then the window closes down, i use bullguard as a anti virus and have asked it to ignore warcraft but no joy, i love the game but re installing every week is doin my nut in, any ideas?????

BadCharlie

Uninstall bullguard and use AVG or something else that wont cause the problem. If bullguard is the problem ?

Dukebox

oh sorry my friends use bullguard and dont have a problem,

tx though

Ivan

Have you tried manually running the patcher and/or patch from your wow directory?

Also, try running the repair tool.

Still, one of the most likely causes in this situation is the virus scanner. Try disabling it while you are patching wow or alternatively get a more mainstream one. I've certainly never heard of bullguard

Failing that, visit the tech support forums

Oh and what OS are you using?

BadCharlie

Never heard of it either till this post.
Is it any good ?

Blowfish

BadCharlie wrote:

Never heard of it either till this post.
Is it any good ?

Not if it blocks WoW it isn't

Anyway, I've had interrupted downloads before where as Ivan said, running the patch straight from the directory worked. If I was to guess what the problem is, it's that each patch is actually a different .exe file, so although the main WoW program is allowed access the net, the individual patches aren't.

ZorbaTehZ

Norton AV used to do something like that to me all the time as well, when I used to use it. When I patched, it would automatically block wow because it recognised the files as modified - even though I had the program in the safe list or whatever its called.

As an aside, was Bullguard not the AV that old Kazaa used to use?