Leading up to last Tuesday (October 14), I’d been splitting World of Warcraft time between my desktop and my laptop. Yes, there are times that I like to sit out in the living room w/ the wife and play WoW while she watches Dancing with the Stars. Well, in the week or so previous to the day Blizzard released the gigantic patch1, I’d noticed just how much data the background downloader was going to end up pulling down. I began to dread doing it once for my desktop and then again for the laptop.
I discovered yesterday that there was no need to dread. Apparently, when WoW gets installed, there are no registry entries created or custom dlls written to system folders. WoW lives in a folder that can be conveniently copied to another computer – creating an up-to-date install! There is much rejoicing. I did not want to sit through another 3.0.2 download.
1 – WoW patch 3.0.2 was over 1.2 Gigabytes!