... main variants of WindowsServer 2008: Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Standard, WindowsServer2008 Enterprise, WindowsServer2008 Datacenter, and Windows Server2008 for Itanium-Based ... support for Windows Vista and Windows Server2008. For a detailed comparison chart of the different editions of Windows Server 2008, see www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-specs.aspx. ... 2.3.4 Differences Between Client andServer Versions Windows ships in both client andserver retail packages. There are six client versions of Windows Vista: Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows...
... 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 ... KeServiceDescriptorTableShadow, includes the Windows USER and GDI services implemented in the kernel-mode part of the Windows subsystem, Win32k.sys. The first time a Windows thread calls a Windows USER or GDI service, ... manager’s namespace and information about objects (such as the reference count, the number of open handles, security descriptors, and so forth). ■ Process Explorer and Handle from Sysinternals...
... 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 ... ZwCreateEvent) and use handles instead of object pointers. Object handles provide additional benefits. First, except for what they refer to, there is no difference between a file handle, an event handle, ... Here’s how: 1. Launch Windows Media Player and Process Explorer, and then view the handle table (by clicking View, Lower Pane View, and then Handles). You should see a handle containing CheckForOtherInstanceMutex....
... APIs and replaces the path name of the \Windows\ System32 folder with \Windows\ Syswow64. Wow64 also redirects \Windows\ LastGood to \Windows\ LastGood \syswow64 and \Windows\ Regedit.exe to \Windows\ syswow64\Regedit.exe. ... Pane View, and then Handles.) We also want to look at unnamed handles, so click on View, Show Unnamed Handles And Mappings. Now click on the Windbg.exe process, and look at its handle table. ... other guests managed by a Windows Server host, both client andserver editions of Windows also ship with enlightenments, which are special optimizations in the kernel and possibly device drivers...
... 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 ... before Windows Vista and adds greater flexibility and isolation of per-installation boot configuration data. (For more information on the BCD, see Chapter 13.) Each entry in the BCD, such as a Windows ... A log file storing a registry trace of startup, logon, logoff, and shutdown on a Windows system will typically be between 50 and 150 MB in size. 4.1.7 Registry Internals In this section,...
... run in session 0 and therefore share the window station with the interactive services. However, in Windows Vista andWindows Server 2008, only processes owned by the system andWindows services ... To fully understand this chapter, you need to be familiar with the terms and concepts explained in Chapters 1 and 2, such as the differencebetween a process and a thread, the Windows virtual ... services ran in the process and takes the recovery steps specified by their failure-related registry values. Additionally, as of Windows Vista andWindowsServer 2008, services are no longer...
... dialog box. Windows System resource Manager Windows Server2008 Enterprise Edition andWindowsServer2008 Datacenter Edition include an optionally installable component called Windows System ... Windows Vista. If you install Terminal Services on WindowsServer2008 systems and configure the server as an application server, this setting is selected so that the users on the terminal server ... process, and 2 means that quantum values don’t change for foreground processes. A setting of 0 or 3 means that the default (which is variable for Windows Vista and fixed for WindowsServer 2008...
... handle interrupts that were already registered for other processors. Unfortunately, until now, CPU-hungry applications have still been left out of this process, but WindowsServer2008andWindows ... Lsass process and client processes and that implement Windows authentication policy. An authentication DLL is responsible for checking whether a given user name and password match, and if so, ... boosted to 15 and runs enough to send more data to the sound card. 7. Stop Cpustres andWindows Media Player, and start the MMCSS service again. Priority Boosts for MultiMedia Applications and Games...
... when it performs an access check involving this ACE. The differencebetween allowed-object and access allowed, andbetween denied-object and access denied, is that the object types are used only ... list of privileges and account rights available on Windows. Note that the tool makes no distinction between privileges and account rights. However, you can differentiate between them because ... made up of a header and zero or more access control entry (ACE) structures. There are two types of ACLs: DACLs and SACLs. In a DACL, each ACE contains a SID and an access mask (and a set of flags,...
... \Device\Serial0, and so forth. Try creating your own links with the subst command at a command prompt. 7.3 I/O Processing Now that we’ve covered the structure and types of drivers and the data ... 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 ... with the Windows QueryDosDevice and DefineDosDevice functions. EXPERIMENT: Viewing Windows Device Name to Windows Device Name Mappings You can examine the symbolic links that define the Windows...
... (FiDOs) that layer between the PDO and the FDO (described next), and that are created by bus filter drivers. ■ One or more optional FiDOs that layer between the PDO and the FDO (and that layer ... ■ Sends the IRP to the I/O handler, which processes standard device operations ■ Sends the IRP to the PnP and power handler that processes these kinds of events and notifies other drivers if ... responsible for managing the communication between the kernel and the user-mode driver host process. IRPs related to power management, Plug and Play, and standard I/O are redirected to the host...