Windows Internals : Covering Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista

by Solomon, David; Russinovich, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780735625303
• ISBN10: 0735625301
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-17
• Publisher: Microsoft Press

Summary

See how the core components of the Windows operating system work behind the scenesguided by a team of internationally renowned internals experts. Fully updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, this classic guide delivers key architectural insights on system design, debugging, performance, and supportalong with hands-on experiments to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand.Delve inside Windows architecture and internals: Understand how the core system and management mechanisms workfrom the object manager to services to the registry Explore internal system data structures using tools like the kernel debugger Grasp the scheduler's priority and CPU placement algorithms Go inside the Windows security model to see how it authorizes access to data Understand how Windows manages physical and virtual memory Tour the Windows networking stack from top to bottomincluding APIs, protocol drivers, and network adapter drivers Troubleshoot file-system access problems and system boot problems Learn how to analyze crashes

Author Biography

Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in the Windows Azure group at Microsoft. He is coauthor of Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference, co-creator of the Sysinternals tools available from Microsoft TechNet, and coauthor of the Windows Internals book series. David A. Solomon is coauthor of the Windows Internals book series and has taught his Windows internals class to thousands of developers and IT professionals worldwide, including Microsoft staff. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft conferences, including TechNet and PDC. Alex Ionescu is a chief software architect and consultant expert in low-level system software, kernel development, security training, and reverse engineering. He teaches Windows internals course with David Solomon, and is active in the security research community.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Concepts and Tools

System Architecture

System Mechanisms

Management Mechanisms

Processes, Threads, and Jobs

Security

I/O System

Storage Management

Memory Management

Cache Manager

File Systems

Networking

Startup and Shutdown

Crash Dump Analysis

Glossary

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