From http://forums.wow-Europe.com/thread.HTML?topicId=9163977331&Sid=1, post #5...

IN answer to your question:

World of Warcraft installs to: "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft"

The Burnign Crusade installs to: "C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft"

Wrath of the Lich King moves the WoW folder and installs to: "C:\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft"

It apparently advises you to do this to prevent problems with patching.

So in short, just install everything to its default place - the Wotlk installer will move folders where it needs to when you get to that point.

I'm in the middle of installing WOW from scratch on Windows 7 RTM as I write this. The only Issue I had was, when installing vanilla WoW, it create a C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft, but then couldn't write into it. When I opened Windows Explorer and right-clicked on the folder, and selected Properties, the 'Read Only' checkbox was checked. I made it read/write, then re-ran the installer, and so far, vanilla WoW is installed, Burning Crussade installed, and Wrath of the Lich King is installing.

As the post that I quoted above states, the Wrath of the Lich King installer will ask to move WoW from C:\Program Files, and I let it.

Oh, and I'm installing this all under an Administrator account.

You install it like you would any other game on a previous operating system... There is a nice FAQ on how to do this, you can find it on http://www.hiddenstuff.com/

Hope this helps!

First, this person who entered the answer above just wanted to drive people to his site because www.hiddenstuff.com has nothing about installing World of Warcraft on it. The word "install" is not on the page.

Second, the answer above is wrong in that Vista/Windows 7 is not like other Windows operating systems because unlike previous versions of Windows, you do not have access to the Program Files folder except as Administrator. It is being treated like a restricted operating system folder. That makes installing and updates difficult since World of Warcraft installs there, but then won't let any files be updated when doing updates.

Again, unlike what the first poster said, it isn't like installing on any previous operating system. It is actually a mixture of two operating systems. Windows Vista and Windows 7, the operating system I am using now, have made changes to be more like Linux. The way they have become more like Linux is that they have a Users folder. In Linux there is a "usr" directory, which is for user-related binaries. This is not where users have their home directory, unless there is a sub-directory /usr/home. Typically, administrators will create a /home directory where users' files are stored.

In Windows 7 and Windows Vista, you have a folder that acts as your home folder and that is located in the Users folder and it is your user name, so mine would be c:\Users\Raiderwolf. So Microsoft changed their file structure to better isolate the operating system files and the operational files of the programs. (again to make WIndows more Linux-like) But to sum it up, for you to be able to install World of Warcraft and receive updates, I would recommend creating a "Games" folder in your user folder and install World of Warcraft there and then you can set permissions on that folder however you like to secure it. Or if you will have more than one person playing on that computer, you could create a new Program Files folder in the Users folder and install it there.

The question is slightly ambiguous.

A hard drive is a physical device which reads and writes blocks of data. The drive itself can not be a Linux hard drive, or a Windows hard drive, it simply deals in blocks.

The file system on the hard drive however can be created by several operating systems; Linux, Windows, Mac OSX as well as many others. The file systems are mostly incompatible between operating systems.

For example.

Windows can read and write NTFS but in general not ext3fs.

Linux can read and write ext3fs but in general not NTFS.

Any drive formatted for one file system can be re-formatted to another file system by any operating system which supports the drive hardware. So to re-format a Linux (e.g. ext3fs) formatted drive, simply treat it as a blank drive and follow the Windows instructions for formatting a drive. It's important to note that when you re-format a drive, any data on it is overwritten and lost.

If you want to know how to format an ext3fs (Linux file system) on a drive while using Windows. The short answer is you can't. In general operating systems are unable to format drives for non native file systems. Even when drivers are available so it can be read and written to, it's generally still not possible to format the drive.

that is:

Windows cannot format a drive with a Linux file system (e.g. ext3)

Linux cannot format a drive with a Windows file system (e.g. ntfs)

If you simply want to share files between a Linux and Windows system though, there are some file systems which both operating systems can read and write to. FAT and FAT32 are the most commonly used examples. This file system is very old, limited and doesn't support most modern features but is compatible across many if not most operating systems.

Hmm... The recommended method of changing your password on Linux (or Unix for that matter), is to use the passwd command.

To change another user's password, switch user to rootand issue the command:

# passwd other_user

Your question seems to indicate that you really want to directly edit your passwd and shadow files on your Linux distribution. Unless you really, really know what you're doing, I recommend against this.

If you do know what you're doing, use the vi (or other editor - vi is the best editor ever made though) editor and directly edit your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.

Of course, should you subsequently discover you can no longer access your system, it may behoove you to go back to your Linux/Unix basics and begin all over again. May I suggest, as an excellent starting point, learn all that you can about the world's most wonder editor, the editor vi. :)

For wireless cards that do not work out of the box, you will need to identify the wireless chipset used. You can do this by running "lspci" in a terminal, and looking for names such as "Broadcom, Realtek, Atmel, etc... Afterwards, you can install a third-party module by connecting via Ethernet and running

sudo apt-get install [package name]

The package you will want to install depends on the chipset.

Atmel - atmel-firmware

Broadcom - bcm43xx-fwcutter