Introduction

Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition is intended for advanced computer professionals (both developers and system administrators) who want to understand how the core components of the Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating systems work internally. With this knowledge, developers can better comprehend the rationale behind design choices when building applications specific to the Windows platform. Such knowledge can also help developers debug complex problems. System administrators can benefit from this information as well, because understanding how the operating system works "under the covers" facilitates understanding the performance behavior of the system and makes it easier to troubleshoot ...

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