By Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon

Delve contained in the home windows kernel with famous internals specialists Mark Russinovich and David Solomon, in collaboration with the Microsoft home windows product improvement workforce. This vintage guide—fully up to date for home windows Server 2003, home windows XP, and home windows 2000, together with 64-bit extensions—describes the structure and internals of the home windows working process. You’ll locate hands-on experiments you should use to event home windows inner habit firsthand, besides complex troubleshooting info that will help you continue your structures working easily and successfully. even if you’re a developer or a method administrator, you’ll locate severe architectural insights so you might speedy follow for greater layout, debugging, functionality, and support.Get in-depth, within wisdom of the home windows working process: comprehend the main mechanisms that configure and keep an eye on home windows, together with dispatching, startup and shutdown, and the registry discover the home windows protection version, together with entry, privileges, and auditing examine inner process structure utilizing the kernel debugger and different instruments learn the information constructions and algorithms that take care of strategies, threads, and jobs notice how home windows manages digital and actual reminiscence comprehend the operation and structure of NTFS, and troubleshoot dossier approach entry difficulties View the home windows networking stack from best to backside, together with mapping, APIs, identify solution, and protocol drivers Troubleshoot boot difficulties and practice crash research

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Com and run it. The first time you run it, you will receive a message that symbols are not currently configured. If properly configured, Process Explorer can access symbol information to display the symbolic name of the thread start function and functions on its call stack (available by double-clicking on a process and clicking on the Threads tab). This is useful for identifying what threads are doing within a process. To access symbols, you must have the Debugging Tools installed (described later in this chapter).

Move the mouse rapidly back and forth. You should notice the % Privileged Time line going up when you move the mouse around, reflecting the time spent servicing the mouse interrupts and the time spent in the graphics part of the windowing system (which, as explained in Chapter 2, runs primarily as a device driver in kernel mode). ) 19 20 Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition 6. When you’re finished, click the New Counter Set button on the toolbar (or just close the tool). You can also quickly see this activity by using Task Manager.

LiveKd presents a simulated crash dump file to the debugger, so you can perform any operations in LiveKd that are supported on a crash dump. Because LiveKd is relying on physical memory to back the simulated dump, the kernel debugger might run into situations in which data structures are in the middle of being changed by the system and are inconsistent. Each time the debugger is launched, it gets a snapshot of the system state, so if you want to refresh the snapshot, quit the debugger (with the “q” command) and LiveKd will ask you whether you want to start it again.

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