Anyone else stuck at "initializing" and Update?

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Every time there is an update I have to reopen Bnet with it run as administrator.

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I really wanted to play today and make a Drakthyr but got this stuck on ‘‘Initializing’’ issue!!! BLIZZARD please fix!!

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Using Task Manager and ending task for Battlent Update Agent does nothing, and running it as administrator doesn’t seem to stop it either all i wanted was have a chill night playing…!

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For me nothing worked. I deleted my retail wow folder. I restarted. But until I decided to free up more space than the amount it said it needed. I freed up like 20 more gigs or something. Now it is installing and playable. I guess make sure you arent close on memory or that might be causing the issue as well.

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For those of you still having this issue and nothing else worked, here’s what I did that I did not see mentioned here. I am on Win10.

  1. Install Windows .NET Core runtimes 7.0.0 and 6.0.11. I can’t include a link. You will have to look for it in Google.

  2. Install Windows Update Version 22H2 through Windows Updater. For me it was an optional update as Windows Updater otherwise thought my system was up to date and I had to click on view optional updates.

  3. Uninstall Battle.net client and all its files (including deleting Battle.net in C:\ProgramData)

  4. Restart.

  5. Reinstall Battle.net client. Run.

For me, this caused the update to work after a few minutes of nail-biting and waiting to see if it got past “initializing.”

Blizzard, your product is in an unacceptable state if so many customers are having issues like this with no consistent solution.

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FYI, I figured this out for myself.

On Windows, go to Firewall &Network Protection - Allow an app through firewall.

For some reason, neither Bnet Updater or WoW launcher were in the list, so I clicked Change Settings, and then at the bottom “Allow another app…”

I had to find both of them to make it work, but this fixed it.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but for me, this was after I had one of my SSDs go bad, and I tried to reinstall on a different drive. It was like something wasn’t quite fixed just by deleting the old file structure, and even uninstalling/reinstalling multiple times didn’t work. Maybe some remnant file was still around that was breaking the firewall issue.

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This helped me.

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I too struggled with this issue. I went through everything with no luck. What finally got things running for me was killing all adobe creative cloud processes. It was like magic, as soon as I killed the last one, my update bar changed from initializing to an actual download status bar and has been downloading without issue since. Might have to just play wack-a-mole with other processes until you find the right one.

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