Windows Internals, Part 1 System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more

by Yosifovich, Pavel; Russinovich, Mark E.; Solomon, David A.; Ionescu, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780735684188
• ISBN10: 0735684189
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780133986464
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780735648739
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-05-05
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Summary

The definitive guide–fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

 

Delve inside Windows architecture and internals, and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by a team of internals experts, this classic guide has been fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.

Whether you are a developer or an IT professional, you’ll get critical, insider perspectives on how Windows operates. And through hands-on experiments, you’ll experience its internal behavior firsthand–knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance, and support.

 

 

This book will help you:

·        Understand the Window system architecture and its most important entities, such as processes and threads

·        Examine how processes manage resources and threads scheduled for execution inside processes

·        Observe how Windows manages virtual and physical memory

·        Dig into the Windows I/O system and see how device drivers work and integrate with the rest of the system

·        Go inside the Windows security model to see how it manages access, auditing, and authorization, and learn about the new mechanisms in Windows 10 and Server 2016

Author Biography

Brian Catlin is co-owner and vice president of a developer training organization that focuses on Windows internals, device driver development, debugging, and security.

Table of Contents

1 Concepts and Tools

2 System Architecture

3 Windows Application Support

4 Windows Store Apps

5 Graphics and the Desktop

6 Management Mechanisms

7 User mode memory management

8 Security

9 Storage

10 Networking

11 Hypervisor (Hyper-V)