re: wow.exe in process list command prompt on startup
Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11774 messages posted)
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 --
Note*** also read the config.nt file with NotePad it will help show what it loads
up also,,,
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On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm, DEX wrote:
>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 --
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>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..
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>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 CPL ver.2.8
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