I kill wowexec every single time I meet it :)) Actually I kill it's parent
NTVDM or so, and wowexec dissapears...Nothing happens after that.
It seems to have something to do with the emulated 16 bit environment ...
but who cares :))
[Win200 Profesional & Advanced Server, NT 4]

Fane

----- Original Message -----
From: <John.Hubbard@...>
To: <IBDI@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 16:47
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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