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Windows Internals, Part 2, 7th Edition
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Windows Internals, Part 2, 7th Edition

by Andrea Allievi, Alex Ionescu, David A. Solomon, Kate Chase, Mark E. Russinovich
September 2021
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
34h 23m
English
Microsoft Press
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AppendixContents of Windows Internals, Seventh Edition, Part 1

Introduction

Chapter 1   Concepts and tools

Windows operating system versions

Windows 10 and future Windows versions

Windows 10 and OneCore

Foundation concepts and terms

Windows API

Services, functions, and routines

Processes

Threads

Jobs

Virtual memory

Kernel mode vs. user mode

Hypervisor

Firmware

Terminal Services and multiple sessions

Objects and handles

Security

Registry

Unicode

Digging into Windows internals

Performance Monitor and Resource Monitor

Kernel debugging

Windows Software Development Kit

Windows Driver Kit

Sysinternals tools

Conclusion

Chapter 2   System architecture

Requirements and design goals

Operating system model

Architecture overview

Portability

Symmetric multiprocessing ...

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ISBN: 9780135462348