WoW Mods not saving data?

[Jason]

So far I've not had any problems running World of Warcraft save 1. Lately I
just realized that MODS written for WoW (Damage Meters, Threat Meters,
Auctioneer) do not get their data saved on exit. Everytime I start the game
all the mods are from a few weeks ago, ironically when I started running WoW
on Vista.

I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this, and if this culd be a write
permissions problem on Vista that didn't occur on XP?

- Jason

 

[Paul Smith]

So far I've not had any problems running World of Warcraft save 1. Lately
I just realized that MODS written for WoW (Damage Meters, Threat Meters,
Auctioneer) do not get their data saved on exit. Everytime I start the
game all the mods are from a few weeks ago, ironically when I started
running WoW on Vista.

I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this, and if this culd be a
write permissions problem on Vista that didn't occur on XP?

Quite possibly. Admin accounts on Vista run applications as 'limited' and
prompt you when the application needs admin rights. This is called UAC, it
sounds like the mods are writing to a location outside of your user
directory and the prompt is failing to appear.

You can disable this by clicking Start typing msconfig and pressing enter.
This will open System Configuration clicking on the Tools tab will show a
list of items, one will be Disable UAC, run that. Reboot the system and see
if they can save their data after that.

With this disabled an admin account will allow all applications admin rights
by default.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Drew]

yeah same for me on beta two before RC1 dont have wow anymore quit the game.

 

[Trevor Swanson]

So what you're saying is that there's no way to give WoW full rights, but
instead I have to disable UAC altogether? I like the UAC feature as a whole,
but if I'm going to be installing mods I'd like WoW to have permission to
save the data... There's no way to do it?