Windows Internals
System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more, Part 1| By: | Pavel Yosifovich; Alex Ionescu; David A. Solomon; Mark E. Russinovich; David A. Solomon |
| Publisher: | Pearson Technology Group |
| Print ISBN: | 9780735684188 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780133986464 |
| Edition: | 7 |
| Copyright: | 2017 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The definitive guide–fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals, and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by a team of internals experts, this classic guide has been fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
Whether you are a developer or an IT professional, you’ll 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.
This book will help you:
· Understand the Window system architecture and its most important entities, such as processes and threads
· Examine how processes manage resources and threads scheduled for execution inside processes
· Observe how Windows manages virtual and physical memory
· Dig into the Windows I/O system and see how device drivers work and integrate with the rest of the system
· Go inside the Windows security model to see how it manages access, auditing, and authorization, and learn about the new mechanisms in Windows 10 and Server 2016