PREFACE

The Win32 system services are the innovative, cutting-edge capabilities that make Windows 2000 and Windows 98 interesting and exciting. Amid all of the media attention surrounding Windows 2000 and 98, you have probably heard and read about many of the modern capabilities that these operating systems contain:

  • Processes and threads

  • Synchronization

  • Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and DCOM (Distributed COM)

  • Event logging

  • Network communications

  • TCP/IP network communications

  • File mapping and Active Directory

  • Interprocess and Interprocessor communication

  • Compressed file access

  • Network drive- and printer-sharing

  • Serial communications

  • Services (background processing like UNIX daemons)

  • Object and file security

The goal of this book is to show you how to use all ...

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