I upgraded to Windows 7. Everything seems to work generally, but some add ons, such as Deadly Boss Mods, no longer work. Seems I can not access the folders because they are locked. I can not figure out how to unlock them. This appears to be a problem in some other files as well. Suggestions?

I upgraded to Windows 7. Everything seems to work generally, but some add ons, such as Deadly Boss Mods, no longer work. Seems I can not access the folders because they are locked. I can not figure out how to unlock them. This appears to be a problem in some other files as well. Suggestions?

A couple of tips. First, I generally don't put application in the "Program Files" folder anymore because stuff like this can happen once in a while. It has to do with how "updating" works, and what is allowed to have access to which folder... its considered a "security feature" or some such.

That said, I've never seen that particular problem. Try checking out your "User Account Control" settings (open start button and type in "user account control," it should be the first option). Determine whether or not those settings are affecting the way you are able to access folders.

As for DBM, I'm running Win7 and it works great for me... you may want to check to see if the latest patch has messed it up for you in some way, look for an updated version, or "enable out of date add-ons" on your log-in screen.

If none of this stuff works... post again and I'll see if I can help further... or maybe some of the others have more ideas...

Tuesday's patch unchecked "Load out of Date Addons," so you'll probably have to check it again. That may or may not have anything to do with your issue.

For Vista and Windows 7, WoW would not update properly and some add-ons don't work if you have copied the game from an old install to the new Program Files location. It needs to be put in the C:\Users\Public folder to work properly. Once it is there, you should be able to open the folders normally. I found when I did my install the first time in Vista, the original disk installed to Program files and an update moved the folders to Public. When I installed on Win7, I just used the Wrath disk and it installed directly to the Public folder and I have had no issues at all.
Moving the files from their current location to Public also may not change the Permissions for the files. It is possible that you may have to either edit the permissions (if you know how to do that) or just reinstall from the Wrath disk (the easy, but very slow way).

Alternatively to installing in the "Public" folder, you can just create a folder in the root of "C" called "games" and install it there. I have been doing that since Vista for the reason Grommly mentioned.

There are ways to make the "program files" folder cooperate with you, but they are not as easy as this.

I, personally, would recommend not using the users/public folder... and I could tell you why if I remembered what I read that had a good reason for why not... I will see if I can dig it up, it has something to do with access times or something.

If you go through as many games as I do, it's generally best to have a set installation folder for them anyway (like c:\games) rather than using the default paths, keeps things cleaner and easy to find plus it circumvents issues like this. You can go on and on about security as much as you like but if you expect any performance out of anything, you have to live a little dangerously.

Are the files locked, or are they set to read-only? If they are locked or currently being used by the system for whatever reason, a reboot of the system would fix that and then try refrain from using something that might lock them for whatever reason, such as the curse addon updater.

If they are read-only, that can happen for any number of reasons but in the end shouldn't really do much of anything. If you are logged in as administrator you can right click the addons folder and uncheck read-only. Chances are that won't actually work anyway.

I'd reccomend running WoW as administrator and see what happens. Just right click your WoW shortcut and click 'Run as Administrator' and then accept the popup window.