i am running windows vista and am having problems getting questhelper and omen to work. i dont use the curse client i used to jsut download to my mod folder unzip and place in my program files under interface/addons. i also cant get rid of my old out of date addons even though i have taken them out of my programs/interface/addons file. if they were moved to a different file it would be awesome if i could look for them and clear them out . i have always enjoyed tese useful addons in my gaming experience and would appreciate any help.

thanks again deathstryk

I have also done a manual install of the new Wrath addons and none of them are working. I am running XP. The addons show up in the programs file but they dont show up on the addons section of the character select screen. Any help at this time would be greatly appreciated.

For vista you have to put the addons in C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns

You could try this for XP?

i'm new to this. I had questhelper before the latest patch but not now. I've downloaded questhelper manually but i'm completely lost on how to unzip it.

i tried this and it still dont work :( any advice

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For vista you have to put the addons in C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns

I dont have the games folder in the public folder i have a public documents that has some wow stuff from 07 in there but nothing from the recent patch where do i put mine bc i cant get it to download manually from curse and it keeps telling me when i go to set up the install through the client that the path i am choosing isnt correct. so im stuck help please

I have vista also and I'm having the same problems.  I had to move my WOW game to another location, so I moved it to my external hard drive and I can't get any of my addons to work or aknowledge I have them.  Anyone have any ideas?

Mooolissa

Open up MY COMPUTER, then click Public on the left hand panel, under Folders.  Once you have that open click games, then you should have the WoW stuff there. To download new addons Using vista you shouldnt be saving them at the first screen when you download them. After you click Manual install you should get a screen that have open with or save file, Click open with Set to Windows Explorer. Once you do that click extract files, then click browse, The destination will be Public (since all your wow should be here, not in Program Files anymore) once in public click games, then WoW should be there. Then save as normal under the interface.

Under Vista the folder in which World of Warcraft is installed has been moved to

C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns

I do not believe this is a bug. It's because a lot of addon problems were being caused by Vista's virtual store system. Essentially if you have a folder in C:\Program Files it no likey users putting stuff in that folder. So it would instead store in a "virtual store" folder. . So when Wow started up it would look for addons/wtf settings in ....you guessed it the "virtual store" folder. Which is where a lot of confusing over instaling addons on Vista come from - it is exactly as you have posted - there were 2 addon folders and people were putting stuff in the wrong folders , thinking it was the right folders.

So Blizzard decided to move it to alleviate these problems. The confusion lies in not knowing where the new folder is , or even where your world of warcraft folder is in the first place . The key is to find where that folder is and put your addons there. If you start WOW via an alias find the original . The find function will also work well as well.

The old location may of been

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns

I hope this helps.

It really depends some people will have folders in both, but if you know vista at all you most likely already went in and gave wow admin permission. So with doing that you dont have to move the files. But i know for us even with giving wow admin, we still got asked when we updated to 3.0 if we wanted to move the files to a public location. So if you clicked no then it wouldnt of been moved. I use wowmatrix as well and it put the files in the right usable folder the first time, without me having to change it. But alot of people are having issues with them not showing up in game and this is normally why. If your wow is running from public and your addon are in programs they are not going to load, since wow isnt pulling data from that location.

Odd, i use wowmatrix which rox, and nothing changed on my vista 64 bit.  My wow folder is still C:\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons 

After the patch i kept my WTF Folder adn renamed my Interface folder.  I then ran wow and logged back out.  I opened wowmatrix and proceeded to install all the addons i needed from wowmatrix, most of them worked, some of them took a few days to be updated, i run wowmatrix every day before i play to make sure to get the latest updates b/c of this patch.  And every day half of my addons are needing to be updated.

I read somewhere about the new location of wow but it hasnt changed for me.  Odd.

oomg ur right thank u so much!!! this worked omg i love you! haha ive been frustrated with this for so dam long

My problem is I accidently moved my addons folder to another location and they stopped working so I moved them back hoping it would fix the problem but it hasnt.. although the addon folder is there non of them are working and non of them are even acknowledged.

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My problem is I accidently moved my addons folder to another location and they stopped working so I moved them back hoping it would fix the problem but it hasnt.. although the addon folder is there non of them are working and non of them are even acknowledged.

Make sure you moved them back to the correct location. Check out the Sticky if you need some help on paths.

Also next time you should probably start your own thread instead of rezzing an old one.