John, thanks,
I knew I could count on you guys. :))

Helen

At 08:47 AM 11-07-00 -0500, you wrote:

> 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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