

Right-click on it and select "Open with" and once Windows asks you what program to use, locate Notepad and use that. The next step is to go into the new wow folder and locate a file called "realmlist.wtf" - it might only show up as "realmlist", that's fine. If your download is not an archive, you can just move it from your download directory to wherever you wish to play it from. This is because ever after Windows Vista, Windows tries to protect important files, making life difficult for gamers who wish to fiddle with the game files.

You will only make life difficult for yourself in the future if you do.Ĭ:\Games\WoW is a good place or something similar. Select "Extract to" and give a destination folder. Once you have 7-Zip installed, you can just double-click the wow.zip or wow.rar file and 7-Zip will open it up.

This means that the file is an archive and needs to be extracted first. Once the download is complete, you might have just a single file, named wow.zip or wow.rar. You can Google around for one, but we also provide some handy links for you to download it from: Where you got it from doesn't really matter. You can use any WoW client to play, as long as it's version 1.12.1. Later in the thread, some basic in-game advice will be given as well as directions to more information. Yourself, and how to handle some common issues. The aim of this thread is to cover how to get your client up & running, how to register an account for You are a new player (or an old returning one wanting a refresher) before posting questions or issues. As such, all of our ratesĪre 1x and quests, spells and instances work the way they did back in the day. Game play experience should be as close to 2004-2006 as we can possibly make it. We are a vanilla WoW project, striving to be as Blizzlike as possible.
