Download Updates without Bnet Launcher?

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Hey all - does anyone know if this is possible? To DL the latest patch or update without using the BNet launcher?
I tried logging into my Battlenet account to see if I could download a game patch from there, but can’t find anything.

Reason I’m asking, is my Bnet Launcher just crapped out last week, like a file went missing or got corrupted. The only way I could open the game without uninstalling it and reinstalling (or deleting the WTF folder), was to start the game without using the Launcher; via the WoW shortcut in the retail folder.
But now, when I try to start the game and get to server connection stage, the server selection window pops up - all the servers are red and say “Incompatible”.
Thought that might be because I’m missing an update or patch.

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Restart computer and then redownload the Battle.net app.

Then run as Adminstrator.
Good luck.

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The above advice is solid, but to answer you: no. The Bnet app needs to verify your license to allow downloading from the content network.

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Yes I did not want to say no to their question , because I might have been wrong. I do know the app had a issue awhile back with the missing DLL file.
Since then I have read that that issue was fix with the newest release of Battle.net
Thanks Elocin.

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I guess it wasn’t - this same error just occurred to me six days ago:
I started the game, logged in fine. Had to close it and restart so my sound would play. But in that 30 second interval of closing it then restarting I got this:
C:.…Battl.net.13747\libcef.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error… A required DLL could not be found. Please download and reinstall Battle.net.

Only way I could start up the game, was to go into the retail folder, and use the direct game launch icon, that circumvents the Bnet Launcher.
And now, because I can’t use the Launcher, I have no access to the ‘Scan and Repair’ tool.
I also can’t uninstall the battlenet app from my control panel “Add Remove Programs”, for the sake of trying to reinstall it.
I’ve tried Farntok’s advice:

Started the download at 7:16PM MST, it’s now 7:42PM MST, and the “Updating Battle.net” progress bar hasn’t budged from 7/8th of the way through its download.

Anyone else got an idea?

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Create a new admin account on the machine and try installing it again. You may have some corrupted permissions for that directory.

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I tried logging in for the first time in at least 2 weeks.
A download started then pretty much slowed down to 32 Kbs.
I thought maybe my connection was wonkey so I rebooted computer.
Now I get a LIBCEF.DLL corrupted or missing popup that at the end of the message says Error Status: 0xc000007b

How do I correct this.
Can’t start from any of the Blizzard exe’s or any of the wow exe’s. All give the same message.

Where can I download the .dll and what directory should I put it in?

UPDATE:
Uninstalled the Battlenet app, reinstalled it, problem fixed.

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