INSTALLING W0A
Installing w0a
Downloading, the warnings Windows shows, and removing it again.
Which article you need depends on where it stopped.
- Before the first start, check in two steps that the file is really ours: Checking the download really came from us.
- The file disappeared, or a security tool reported it: My antivirus removed the file.
- Nothing happens when you double-click, or the window closes at once: w0a will not start.
- The Windows elevation prompt every time it starts: Why it asks for administrator rights.
- Removing it: Uninstalling w0a. Read it before you uninstall, because what happens to the settings w0a changed is the part that matters.
Why it asks for administrator rights
w0a shows the Windows elevation prompt every time it starts. Here is exactly what it needs those rights for, and what it never does with them.
My antivirus removed the fileA security tool quarantined or deleted w0a. Why an optimizer trips these tools, and how to tell a false alarm from a real one.
Uninstalling w0aHow to remove it, and — the part that actually matters — what happens to the settings it changed.
w0a will not startNothing happens when you double-click, the window closes at once, or it opens black. The causes in the order they are worth checking, and the two files that say which one it was.