Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P10

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P2

... variants of Windows Server 2008: Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, and Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based ... support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. For a detailed comparison chart of the different editions of Windows Server 2008, see www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-specs.aspx. ... Client and Server Versions Windows ships in both client and server retail packages. There are six client versions of Windows Vista: Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P3

... uniprocessor and the APIC on a multiprocessor by using the !pic and !apic kernel debugger commands, respectively. Here’s the output of the !pic command on a uniprocessor. (Note that the !pic command doesn’t ... called report.html 4. Open report.html and expand the DPC/ISR subsection. Expand the DPC/ISR Breakdown area, and you will see summaries of the time spent in ISRs and DPCs by each driver. For example: ... interrupt internals Using the kernel debugger, you can view details of an interrupt object, including its IRQL, ISR address, and custom interrupt dispatching code. First, execute the !idt command and...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P4

... Open Handles Run Process Explorer, and make sure the lower pane is enabled and configured to show open handles. (Click on View, Lower Pane View, and then Handles). Then open a command prompt and ... 155 The handle index identifies the handle entry in the handle table. (Zero means display all handles.) The first handle is index 4, the second 8, and so on. For example, typing !handle 4 will ... for the Desktop and WindowStation objects to prevent this behavior. Object Handles and the Process Handle Table When a process creates or opens an object by name, it receives a handle that represents...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P5

... port, are created. The client gets a handle to the client communication port, and the server gets a handle to the server communication port. The client and the server will then use these new ports ... ■ Server connection port A named port that is a server connection request point. Clients can connect to the server by connecting to this port. ■ Server communication port An unnamed port a server ... replies and requests can be sent, minimizing trips from user to kernel mode and vice versa. Finally, apart from limits on message data and header size, applications can also set bandwidth limits and...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P6

... execution and termination of all processes and threads on the system, as well as DLLs being loaded or unloaded. With the enhanced notifications added in Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008, ... some advanced and debug settings have no editing user interface. Therefore, both graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line tools are included with Windows to enable you to view and modify ... device drivers to load and how various subsystems—such as the memory manager and process manager—configure themselves and tune system behavior. ■ During logon, Explorer and other Windows components...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P7

... run in session 0 and therefore share the window station with the interactive services. However, in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, only processes owned by the system and Windows services ... service’s registry key and loads the DLL into its process to start the service. Table 4-11 lists all the default service groupings on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and some of the services ... services were added in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to cope with the growing number of services that are being started when a user logs on, bogging down the boot-up process and increasing the...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P8

... Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 343 of Windows Server 2008, such as Windows Web Server 2008 and Windows HPC Server 2008, additional checks are made to see if the application ... PspAllocateThread and PspInsertThread. PspAllocateThread handles the actual creation and initialization of the executive thread object itself, while PspInsertThread handles the creation of the thread handle and ... routines, creates a handle for the new process by calling ObOpenObjectByPointer, and then returns this handle to the caller. 5.3.4 Stage 4: Creating the Initial Thread and Its Stack and Context At...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P9

... boosted to 15 and runs enough to send more data to the sound card. 7. Stop Cpustres and Windows Media Player, and start the MMCSS service again. Priority Boosts for MultiMedia Applications and Games ... as Windows Media Player or a 3D computer game. Skipping and other audio glitches have been a common source of irritation among Windows users in the past, and the user-mode audio stack in Windows ... functions and as a result doesn’t receive any boosts. 11. When you’ve finished, exit Reliability and Performance Monitor and CPU Stress. Priority Boosts After GUI Threads Wake Up Threads that own windows...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P10

... standard user token contains a deny-only SID and a Medium Mandatory Label, and that it has only a couple of privileges. The properties on the right in the following screen shot are from a command ... signed and in one of several secure locations, including %SystemRoot% and %ProgramFiles%. Note Threads created by Csrss (which is responsible for console windows and, by extension, all command-line ... structure. Windows makes impersonation available through several mechanisms. If a server communicates with a client through a named pipe, the server can use the ImpersonateNamed-PipeClient Windows...

Windows Internals covering windows server 2008 and windows vista- P11

... loading and unloading of device drivers so that drivers can be loaded on-demand and not consume system resources when unneeded. ■ Support for Plug and Play, where the system locates and installs ... I/O system, including the I/O manager, Plug and Play (PnP) manager, and power manager. Then we’ll examine the structure and components of the I/O system and the various types of device drivers. ... remove this watermark. 492 ■ Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) support and diagnosability so that drivers can be managed and monitored through WMI applications and scripts. (WMI is described...

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