It's the 16-bit application launcher, part of the NT. It handles all
those old executables and it usually hungs.

Pablo

> Hi all,
> Sorry for the OT question - don't know where else to ask...
>
> Does anyone else have a process named ' wowexec.exe' (the first
> character is a blank, or maybe 2 blank chars) in their list of
> processes on NT4 SP5?
>
> Does anyone know what it is/does/belongs to? It's weird - has no PID
> and uses no CPU time or memory.
>
> Thanks,
> Helen
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