Why Windows-on-Windows acts like this ?

[iPrank]

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 ?

[Harsh Gupta]

Design Feature of NT

[iPrank]

Somewhere I heard you can solve this problem by setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WOW\DefaultSeparateVDM key to "yes".

But that didn't work.

[rory]

this is normal.

[eranga262154]

Ya, I feel an issue like this before on a process name ante.exe. But it is not make any damage to me. After few days automatically it removed.