Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. 
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-- Chinese proverb --


WOW (wowexe.exe) is a windows command :)
It will load the autoexec.nt file and the config.nt files from the windows folders 
to run old programs,  WOW will also load rom's and some hardware , you can read the 
autoexec.nt file with NotePad it will tell you what it loads up when the WOW is called 
into play , WOW will also run the win.ini and the sys.ini file looking for drivers 
or calls to old hardware.... It's made to run old games etc. in win2k..

As far as the machine running slow it can be many,many things holding it back but 
take a look at what's loading at win2k boot,  with the free tool below it will help 
you take control of your machine.

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StartUP 
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On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 10:53 am, BloodStorm wrote:

>I am writing on behalf of my roommate who runs a machine with Windows 2000 on it. 

>A few days ago he noticed a command prompt window flash when he started windows 
as 

>it was loading then he found in taskmanager's process window a wow.exe entry that 

>he had not noticed before. A further search revealed wow.exe was in his system32 

>folder and also in his dllcache subfolder under that. His computer has been sluggish 

>for a long time and he's never been able to find a cause, long time on boot up etc. 

>It is a secondhand machine that was used in a business before he got it so he is 

>not sure of all the previous software it may have had installed. Searches on google 

>are frustrating as some warn it may be part of a malicious spyware while other sources 

>say wow.exe is something inherent to windows for running 16 bit programs. Since 
he 

>does things like online banking and bill paying he is concerned about his security 

>and would like to know if this is something that is a threat. Any help would be 
appreciated.

>
 

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