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Windows Internals
Windows Internals, Part 1: User Mode
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals - and see how core components work behind the scenes. This classic guide has been fully updated for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, and now presents its coverage in three volumes: Book 1, User Mode; Book 2, Kernel Mode; Book 3, Device Driver Models.
In Book 1, you'll plumb Windows fundamentals, independent of platform - server, desktop, tablet, phone, Xbox. Coverage focuses on high-level functional descriptions of the various Windows components and features that interact with, or are manipulated by, user mode programs, or applications. You'll also examine management mechanisms and operating system components that are implemented in user mode, such as service processes.
As always, you 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.
Planned chapters: Concepts & Tools; System Architecture; Windows Application Support; Windows Store Apps; Graphics & the Desktop; Management Mechanisms; User Mode Memory Management; Security; Storage; Networking; Hyper-V.
In Book 1, you'll plumb Windows fundamentals, independent of platform - server, desktop, tablet, phone, Xbox. Coverage focuses on high-level functional descriptions of the various Windows components and features that interact with, or are manipulated by, user mode programs, or applications. You'll also examine management mechanisms and operating system components that are implemented in user mode, such as service processes.
As always, you 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.
Planned chapters: Concepts & Tools; System Architecture; Windows Application Support; Windows Store Apps; Graphics & the Desktop; Management Mechanisms; User Mode Memory Management; Security; Storage; Networking; Hyper-V.
800 pages, Paperback
Published May 5, 2017
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November 2, 2020
Great reference for a lot of info that's essential for driver testing or development under the windows OS.
May 18, 2016
It has an excellent description of windows internals with helpful exercises to try. Although sometimes a lot of time is expended on not that important subjects while some important ones received little attention and it can be boring in some places.
Despite of that it is an excellent reference to understand the complexity of this OS, to learn a bit about the history behind some features and to get a good idea how complex a OS could be and why Windows is going to live for a long time still.
I'll recommend doing the exercises when possible, they are well defined and are not hard to do.
Despite of that it is an excellent reference to understand the complexity of this OS, to learn a bit about the history behind some features and to get a good idea how complex a OS could be and why Windows is going to live for a long time still.
I'll recommend doing the exercises when possible, they are well defined and are not hard to do.
July 19, 2015
It's detailed and structured. Topics on different subsytems of the windows kernel are good- memory management, process structure, etc.
June 5, 2016
Still reads a bit flakey in describing non-NTOS parts. Part 2 gets to The Good Stuff
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