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Talkin’ Registry

When describing a Registry setting, we use a simple nomenclature. For

example, I once moved my copy of World of Warcraft from my C: drive to

my D: drive and had problems when the program started. I went online to

www.blizzard.com (home of Blizzard Entertainment, the folks who make

World of Warcraft) and contacted the support staff, who gave me instructions

to access the Registry and make this change:

“Go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\World of Warcraft

and change the GamePath object and the InstallPath object to reflect the

new drive letter of your new WoW location.”

To do so, I opened the Registry Editor. Using this nomenclature, I was

able to find the location of these Registry settings. Figure 12-2 shows this

location. Compare this image to the path described in the instructions from

Blizzard. Note that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is abbreviated as HKLM.

Figure 12-2 Editing the Registry to move World of Warcraft to a new drive

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