Chapter 4. Management Mechanisms

This chapter describes four fundamental mechanisms in the Microsoft Windows operating system that are critical to its management and configuration:

  • The registry

  • Services

  • Unified Background Process Manager

  • Windows Management Instrumentation

  • Windows Diagnostics Infrastructure

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