Hi Turtles,
I've been loving the expansion. I've played several times since it released and haven't experienced any significant problems (only one small in-game bug that I'm sure will be fixed...)
I last played yesterday, and the game ran just fine... Today, I go to the start menu, and it reports that the 'wow.exe' has been changed or moved, so now the game won't run. And I haven't even used this computer in the meantime, only shut it down and started it up again a day later.
Anyone have any ideas for a fix, please? I'm hoping I can recover it, but I suppose could reinstall the game if necessary.
These are the things I've tried so far:
- Restarting
- Looking in the WoW folder, wow.exe isn't there.
- Wow_old.exe is there in the WoW folder - but I've never seen that before - is that a Turtle Expansion thing?
- When I try and run Repair.exe in the WoW folder, it fails to run, and says, "please run Blizzard Repair from inside your WoW folder"!
- Searching for wow.exe elsewhere on the computer, I can't find it in either my files or the recycle bin, so it appears it hasn't been either moved or temporarily deleted.
The only deduction I can make is that it has been permanently deleted, but I don't know how or why that would be...?
Thanks for any suggestions!
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Wow.exe Missing
Re: Wow.exe Missing
Hey! I think Windows Defender or other AV system could quarantine or block it. Please, read: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1526&p=9110#p9110
If you cannot find it there, get WoW.exe from any player on Discord or download from here: https://dropmefiles.com/ZXkhg
If you cannot find it there, get WoW.exe from any player on Discord or download from here: https://dropmefiles.com/ZXkhg
Re: Wow.exe Missing
Thanks Torta! Yes, it was the AV. I would have thought it would have alerted me to the change, but no...
So I've recovered the file and run the game again. At the login screen, when I add my details, it now immediately comes up with "disconnected from server". Any ideas why that would be, please?
My internet connection is fine, and my realmlist file is still pointing at turtle. I don't know what else it could be...?
So I've recovered the file and run the game again. At the login screen, when I add my details, it now immediately comes up with "disconnected from server". Any ideas why that would be, please?
My internet connection is fine, and my realmlist file is still pointing at turtle. I don't know what else it could be...?
Re: Wow.exe Missing
fantastic reply. this has just happened to me and i was really struggling to figure out what was wrong until i found this post. thanks!