Re: How to Kill wowexec.exe

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so, did you try the /PID parameter to specify which one to kill?

wowexec.exe doesn't have a PID, it runs under ntvdm.exe.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Vanguard <vanguard.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
"Tom Woods" <twoods@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm sorry... I did not make my self clear..

I need to kill the task from command line using TaskKill or some other
utility.


What was the syntax for the taskkill command that you tried? "taskkill
/im wowexec" didn't work? Were you logged in under an admin-level
account at the time (in case you weren't listed as the account under User
Name as owning that process)? Did you try the /F option? Was WOWEXEC a
child process (which means you need to kill the parent process)? If it
was the parent process, did you try the /T parameter to kill off any
child processes (WOW is Windows on Windows to map the Win16 API system
calls to Win32 API calls for 16-bit apps, so there is probably an NTVDM
or other child process)? Was there more than one WOWEXEC process and, if
so, did you try the /PID parameter to specify which one to kill?

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