Wow.exe is the executable file for World of Warcraft, a multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG owned and developed by Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft players control character avatars in the game world via first- or third- person view and function, exploring the landscape, completing quests, fighting various monsters, and interacting with the non-player characters or their co-players. It requires players to pay for subscription by buying the prepaid game cards and selecting the playing time limit, or by using credit or debit cards to pay subscription on a regular basis. In entering the game, the player selects a realm or called server. A realm acts as the individual in the game world, falling into one of the four categories, such as the Normal (player versus the environment or PVE realm in which the gameplay focuses on completing quests and defeating monsters, and the roleplay is optional), the Player-Versus-Player or PvP (where combat fights are consensual and is the norm in addition to completing quests and defeating monsters), the RP or RolePlay (a variant of PvE in which the players play character roles), and the RP-PvP or RolePlay Player-Versus-Player (where the players play characters while assuming cross-faction combat).

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. wow.exe. is used by World of Warcraft, If you shut down wow.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop wow.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is World of Warcraft, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed wow.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as World of Warcraft, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if wow.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that wow.exe, belongs to, in this case World of Warcraft