*nod* it's the windows "layer" for win16 *and* dos applications on nt/2k
boxes.

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I found the answer, now where'd I put that problem...


-----Original Message-----
From: John.Hubbard@... [mailto:John.Hubbard@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2000 11:48 PM
To: IBDI@egroups.com
Subject: RE: [IBDI] OT: wowexec.exe


I think this always runs under NT4. WOW stands for "Windows-on-Windows",
I believe it exists to run legacy 16 bit code. I've never been adventurous
enough to see what happens when you kill the process. I can't figure out
what would be running inside of it though, there shouldn't be any reason for
it to be running unless NT requires some very old code to run.

-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:00 AM
To: ibdi@egroups.com
Subject: [IBDI] OT: wowexec.exe


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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