WoW Addons How to Install

WoW Addons are a great way to improve the game. They’ll allow you to do things in game that will help you level faster, make more gold, control your aggro, see what items a boss might drop, or change the look of your screen to something that just looks better to you.

But if you’re having problems installing them, chances are that it’s something simple. First I want you to understand that an addon is just a program that someone has created, and the program file must be placed inside your WoW Addons Folder. To find the folder, you’ll need to go to your Hard Drive, usually the C: drive. Open it, open your program files, open the World of Warcraft file, open Interface, then you’ll see the Addon file.

Open this Addon file and place your addon inside. If you’ve already placed your Addon inside this folder, and it’s not working, there’s a good chance that your addon was placed inside an extra folder.

Open up that WoW addon, and inside you’ll see another addon. That’s the one you want to use. If you open an addon folder, and inside you see several different files with .exe. lau and others, that is the actual addon.

You must have the actual WoW addon file placed inside your addon folder, and not have the extra folder. This is the main reason that addons won’t work.

So if you’re trying to install Auctioneer, and you go to C:/Programfiles/WorldofWarcraft/Interface/Addons and inside you see the Auctioneer folder… open it up, and if inside you see another folder that says Auctioneer…open it up, you’ll see several different files. You need to take that first folder, and delete it, and use only the second folder.

For All WoW Addons:

-Go to Curse.com and find the addon that you want to install, and click the download button
-Select Manual Install
-Save the file..saving it to your desktop is a quick/easy way, if you didn’t
-Find the file and right click to Extract All

Next you’ll need to place the extracted files into your World of Warcraft Files, this is different for different operating systems.

WoW Addons For Windows Vista

-Open the file, if it’s not on your desktop, it should be in your Downloads Folder, open the addon
-Double Click the addon
-Choose Extract All (upper toolbar)
-It will ask you where to extract to now, and you must find your WoW files, and tell it where to put the file
-Mine were in Public-Games-World of Warcaft-
-Inside the World of Warcraft files continue into the folders Interface then Addons
-Select Ok

WoW Addons For Windows XP

-It should have saved to your desktop, unless you said other wise, so go to the file… Right Click, then Extract All
-Next find your WoW Folders…mine were in C: Program Files
-Open your World of Warcraft main folder, then Interface, then Addons
-Click on the Addon, and drag it into the Addon Folder

WoW Addons For Mac

-Works just like XP
-Place the files in the WoW Folders – Interface – Addons
-If that doesn’t work, get a program called WowMatrix, it will let you install the .exe files that your Mac hates.

WoW Addons Troubleshooting

-Some Addon files are in an extra folder, so if they aren’t working…
-Go to the Addon you’re downloading inside the Interface-Addons file
-Open the Addon you’re downloading, use the folder in there

Example:
If Auctioneer isn’t working right, and you followed the steps as described here, go to your Program Files/WorldofWarcraft/Interface/Addons
In here you’ll see the Auctioneer Folder. Open this folder, and use the Auctioneer Folder inside. Open it first and make sure it has several files, if so it’s the folder you’ll need to place in the Addons Folder.