
You can install addons while being logged into the game, but they do not load until you have exited the game and logged back in. You must first exit "World of Warcraft" completely. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.Installing addons manually is not always an easy process, so this guide is created to help you along the way.
If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. If button is there: make sure all the addons you installed are listed and make sure “load out of date addons” is checked. At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the “addons” button. Move the “Addonname” folder into the “AddOns” folder. The “My Addons” folder should have the “Addonname” folder in it. In a new window, open the “My Addons” folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your addons. StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to “Use Folder Names” is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed. WinRAR: Right click the file, select “Extract Here”. Copy these outside to the “My Addons” folder.
Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed.
Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Extract the file – commonly known as ‘unzipping’ – Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!. If, when you try to download the file, it automatically “opens”, you need to RIGHT click on the link and “save as…” or “Save Target As”. Make a folder on your desktop called “My Addons”.