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- DOCUMENT:Q101924 28-JUL-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :PRB: Unable to Start Win 16 WOW Applications
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system, version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server, version 3.1
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- When starting 16-bit Windows applications with Windows NT, if you do
- not get an hourglass pointer and no application loads when you click
- the icon for a 16-bit Windows application, this may indicate a corrupt
- or missing WOWEXEC.EXE file. The Windows On Windows (WOW) function of
- Windows NT is handled by WOWEXEC.EXE. If the file is corrupt, the
- following error message may appear:
-
- "$ caused an exception in the Win16 Subsystem
-
- Click on CLOSE to terminate the application
- Click on IGNORE to continue, you should save your work in a new
- file"
-
- Windows 3.0 and 3.1 applications are 16-bit and run in WOW in a
- Virtual DOS Machine (VDM). There must be a valid WOWEXEC.EXE in the
- SYSTEM32 subdirectory for the WOW subsystem to start. If the file is
- corrupt or missing, the above error message may appear during logon or
- when attempting to load a 16-bit Windows application.
-
- The correct file size of WOWEXEC.EXE is 15872 bytes.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10 W_NTAS
- KBCategory:
- KBSubcategory: 16ap
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