Windows Internals, Part 1 - E-book - Multi-format

Delve inside Windows architecture and internals-guided by a team of internationally renowned internals experts. Fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, this classic guide delivers key architectural insights on system design, debugging, performance, and support-along with hands-on experiments to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand. See how Windows components work behind the scenes: - Understand how the core system and management mechanisms work - Explore internal system data structures using tools like the kernel debugger - Go inside the Windows security model to see how it authorizes access to data - Understand how Windows manages physical and virtual memory - Tour the Windows networking stack from top to bottom - Troubleshoot file-system access problems and system boot problems - Learn how to analyze crashes