How To Get Warcraft Three Registered

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If you feel similar playing some Warcraft 3 but tin't find your old CD, or tin't be bugged to put it in the tray every time, you'll want to patch your copy so that yous can play whenever yous want. You used to have to download fan-made patches in gild to successfully play without the CD, but Blizzard has fabricated No CD a standard feature in after versions of Warcraft three. This guide will show yous how to patch officially, or use an old homemade solution.

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Update your game through Blizzard. The ane.21b patch, available through Blizzard's Boxing.internet service, will permit you to play Warcraft three without inserting the CD as long as it has been legally installed and the CD key is registered with Battle.net.
- Later patches work too. For example, the latest patch for Warcraft three is 1.26a and it contains the same No-CD functionality.
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Download the patch. Y'all can get the latest patch directly from Blizzard'south website, or you can connect to Boxing.net and download it automatically. If you lot connect to Battle.net from within the game, the patch will exist downloaded and installed without any input from your required.
- You will demand a Boxing.net business relationship in order to patch Warcraft 3 officially through Blizzard. The account is what prevents piracy since the CD is no longer required.
- If you would like to play online without using the Battle.net service, you tin can connect to others with third-party programs
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Run the game. Once you have patched to the latest official version of Warcraft 3, you can play without needing to accept the CD in the drive.

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Install Warcraft and the expansion packs as yous usually would. You will need a regular installation of all of your game files before you can install the No CD patch. This patch only works on the 1.20e version of Warcraft three. If y'all accept a newer version of Warcraft 3, connect to Battle.net and download the latest official update to disable the CD check.
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Backup your game installation. There is a take a chance that the patching process tin can go incorrect, and backing up your game data will aid salvage you time instead of reinstalling. Copy the entire Warcraft three folder, which is typically located at C:\Program Files\Warcraft Three.
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Download the No CD patches. In that location are 2 patches that you lot demand to download: Hellkiller'due south No CD patch and Vandoff's ready for that patch. They are bachelor online at various websites. Use your search engine to discover upward-to-date links.
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Unzip the patches into the Warcraft three folder. The patches get unzipped straight into the folder, and they will change the necessary files. Agree to overwrite anything during the unzipping process. Install Hellkiller's patch commencement, so Vandoff's set up.
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Right-click the Warcraft 3 icon on your desktop and click the "alter icon" push button. At the top of the window that pops up, in that location will be a path to the icon. It may look like to this: C:\Plan Files\Warcraft Iii\Frozen.exe. Copy that for the next footstep.
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Create a shortcut to the patched launcher. Correct-click on PIGON_LOADER.exe in your Warcraft 3 folder. Select Send To, then select Desktop (Create Shortcut). Right-click on the new shortcut and select Properties. Click the Change Icon button. Paste the path to the icon that copied from the previous step.
- You tin can rename the shortcut to whatsoever you'd like, such as Warcraft 3. You volition be using this shortcut to start Warcraft.
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Have all the required files earlier you lot start the steps.
Make sure that y'all have made backups of the original files like instructed in the guide.

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This is illegal by Blizzard'due south standards, but as long every bit yous accept legitimately purchased your WC CD, and then it is perfectly legal and should be encouraged for all your friends to do.
This is highly non recommended for people who are using a cracked version of WC3 with "imitation" CD-keys.
The author accepts no responsibleness for anything that may go wrong while applying the patch.

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