Windows Internals, Part 1: Covering Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 by Mark E. Russinovich


Windows Internals, Part 1: Covering Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
Title : Windows Internals, Part 1: Covering Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
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ISBN : 0735648735
ISBN-10 : 9780735648739
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 754
Publication : Published April 5, 2012

Delve inside Windows architecture and internals—and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by three renowned internals experts, this classic guide is fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2—and now presents its coverage in two volumes.

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.

In Part 1, you will:


Understand how core system and management mechanisms work—including the object manager, synchronization, Wow64, Hyper-V, and the registry
Examine the data structures and activities behind processes, threads, and jobs
Go inside the Windows security model to see how it manages access, auditing, and authorization
Explore the Windows networking stack from top to bottom—including APIs, BranchCache, protocol and NDIS drivers, and layered services
Dig into internals hands-on using the kernel debugger, performance monitor, and other tools

Windows Internals, Part 1: Covering Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Reviews

  • Stefan Albu

    Great reference for a lot of info that's essential for driver testing or development under the windows OS.

  • David López

    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.

  • Arnold Pereira

    It's detailed and structured. Topics on different subsytems of the windows kernel are good- memory management, process structure, etc.

  • Ian Hanschen

    Still reads a bit flakey in describing non-NTOS parts. Part 2 gets to The Good Stuff