Hey all, i recently bought world of warcraft, so i thought i needed to
install it on my computer, so when i put it into my computer, it didnt
appear, so i went to my computer to open it. when i did it said E:\ is not a
valid Win32 application.

i recently cleaned my registiry and defragged my drive. i restored my old
registry, but the same error message pops up.
Any suggestions?

my disc reader thing is.. Compact disc, digital audio.
my systen is a windows XP.

Sounds like a corrupt file or incompatible hardware :S First before panicking
try it in another computer and then post back the results. This will help
narrow down if it is the disk or your computer setup.

Hope this helps.

"Korea92" wrote:

> Hey all, i recently bought world of warcraft, so i thought i needed to
> install it on my computer, so when i put it into my computer, it didnt
> appear, so i went to my computer to open it. when i did it said E:\ is not a
> valid Win32 application.
>
> i recently cleaned my registiry and defragged my drive. i restored my old
> registry, but the same error message pops up.
> Any suggestions?
>
> my disc reader thing is.. Compact disc, digital audio.
> my systen is a windows XP.

ah, thanks for the reply
i dont have a 2nd computer at the moment, i tried multiple differnt CD's and
they dont seem to work. So im guessing its my reader thingy. I tried system
restore, but that didnt solve anything.
"Adam" wrote:

> Sounds like a corrupt file or incompatible hardware :S First before panicking
> try it in another computer and then post back the results. This will help
> narrow down if it is the disk or your computer setup.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> "Korea92" wrote:
>
> > Hey all, i recently bought world of warcraft, so i thought i needed to
> > install it on my computer, so when i put it into my computer, it didnt
> > appear, so i went to my computer to open it. when i did it said E:\ is not a
> > valid Win32 application.
> >
> > i recently cleaned my registiry and defragged my drive. i restored my old
> > registry, but the same error message pops up.
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > my disc reader thing is.. Compact disc, digital audio.
> > my systen is a windows XP.

I'm assuming E: is your cd drive?

"Korea92" wrote:

> Hey all, i recently bought world of warcraft, so i thought i needed to
> install it on my computer, so when i put it into my computer, it didnt
> appear, so i went to my computer to open it. when i did it said E:\ is not a
> valid Win32 application.
>
> i recently cleaned my registiry and defragged my drive. i restored my old
> registry, but the same error message pops up.
> Any suggestions?
>
> my disc reader thing is.. Compact disc, digital audio.
> my systen is a windows XP.

"Korea92" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:191CD302-E2E3-4157-A6B6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> ah, thanks for the reply
> i dont have a 2nd computer at the moment, i tried multiple differnt CD's
> and
> they dont seem to work. So im guessing its my reader thingy. I tried
> system
> restore, but that didnt solve anything.
> "Adam" wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a corrupt file or incompatible hardware :S First before
>> panicking
>> try it in another computer and then post back the results. This will help
>> narrow down if it is the disk or your computer setup.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> "Korea92" wrote:
>>
>> > Hey all, i recently bought world of warcraft, so i thought i needed to
>> > install it on my computer, so when i put it into my computer, it didnt
>> > appear, so i went to my computer to open it. when i did it said E:\ is
>> > not a
>> > valid Win32 application.
>> >
>> > i recently cleaned my registiry and defragged my drive. i restored my
>> > old
>> > registry, but the same error message pops up.
>> > Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > my disc reader thing is.. Compact disc, digital audio.
>> > my systen is a windows XP.

If you are saying no other CDs work in your CD drive then it is likely a
hardware failure. Sometimes something internal breaks and the laser stops
moving and all it will read is the TOC on the disk.

Try the disk in another machine and if it works get a DVD drive. They are
pretty cheap now-a-days.

Sometimes you also have to get a laser cleaner for the CD player. Dirt gets
in there.
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Korea92" wrote:

> ah, thanks for the reply
> i dont have a 2nd computer at the moment, i tried multiple differnt CD's and
> they dont seem to work. So im guessing its my reader thingy. I tried system
> restore, but that didnt solve anything.
> "Adam" wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a corrupt file or incompatible hardware :S First before panicking
> > try it in another computer and then post back the results. This will help
> > narrow down if it is the disk or your computer setup.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > "Korea92" wrote:
> >
> > > Hey all, i recently bought world of warcraft, so i thought i needed to
> > > install it on my computer, so when i put it into my computer, it didnt
> > > appear, so i went to my computer to open it. when i did it said E:\ is not a
> > > valid Win32 application.
> > >
> > > i recently cleaned my registiry and defragged my drive. i restored my old
> > > registry, but the same error message pops up.
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > my disc reader thing is.. Compact disc, digital audio.
> > > my systen is a windows XP.