Why Windows-on-Windows acts like this ?
Run windows-on-windows by typing "wowexec.exe" in Run dialog.
Now open taskmaneger.
1. Notice that there there is no memory usage shown.
2. Also there is a space before the process name.
3. You'll see another process, ntvdm.exe, has started with it.
When you arrange the processes by name/cpu usage/mem usage etc by clicking the columnheaders, both processes move together.
4. Now try to kill wowexec.exe. - It can't be killed.
Kill ntvdm.exe, then that process will exit.
Why this is happening ?
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