Windows Internals - Part 1

Windows Internals

by Mark E. Russinovich

Delve inside windows architecture and internals and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by a team of internationally renowned internals experts, this classic guide has been fully updated for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 and now presents its coverage in volume one. As always, you get critical, insider perspectives on how windows operates and through hands-on experiments, you'll experience its internal behavior first hand knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance and support.

752 pages, Paperback

Published January 2, 2013

About the author

Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud operating system group. Russinovich is a widely recognized expert in Windows operating system internals as well as operating system architecture and design.

Russinovich joined Microsoft when Microsoft acquired Winternals software, the company he cofounded in 1996 and where he worked as Chief Software Architect. He is also cofounder of Sysinternals.com, where he wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns, Process Explorer and Tcpview.

Russinovich coauthored "Windows Internals" and "The Sysinternals Administrator's Reference," both from Microsoft Press, authored the cyberthriller Zero Day, is a Contributing Editor for TechNet Magazine and Senior Contributing Editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine, and has written many articles on Windows internals. He has been a featured speaker at major industry conferences around the world, including Microsoft's TechEd, IT Forum, and Professional Developer's Conference, as well as Windows Connections, Windev, and TechMentor, and has taught Windows internals, troubleshooting and file system and device driver development to companies worldwide, including Microsoft, the CIA and the FBI. Russinovich earned his Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.