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See how the core components of the Windows operating system work behind the scenes-guided by a team of internationally renowned internals experts. Fully updated for Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Vista®, this classic guide delivers key architectural insights on system design, debugging, performance, and support-along with hands-on experiments to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand.
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals:
- Understand how the core system and management mechanisms work-from the object manager to services to the registry
- Explore internal system data structures using tools like the kernel debugger
- Grasp the scheduler's priority and CPU placement algorithms
- Go inside the Windows security model to see how it authorizes access to data
- Understand how Windows manages physical and virtual memory
- Tour the Windows networking stack from top to bottom-including APIs, protocol drivers, and network adapter drivers
- Troubleshoot file-system access problems and system boot problems
- Learn how to analyze crashes
About the Author
Mark E. Russinovich is chief software architect and cofounder of Winternals Software, a company that specializes in advanced systems software for Windows. He authored the Sysinternals tools featured in this book. Mark has a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a senior contributing editor for Windows® IT Pro Magazine.
David A. Solomon is coauthor of the WINDOWS INTERNALS book series and teaches classes on Windows internals to corporations worldwide, including Microsoft®. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft technical conferences and previously was a lead developer for the VMS operating system.
Alex is currently studying at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and is in his first year of obtaining a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering. He is also a Microsoft® Student Ambassador and is representing the company on campus as a Technical Rep.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I've always kept the latest version of this on my desk as it's an essential reference for Windows developers. However it's a hefty tome and I was hoping that the Kindle version would be more portable. The Windows 2000 version of this book came with a CD with the book in electronic format in a proprietary format - you needed to take the CD with you, but it was handier than carrying the book. Sadly the images are poorly scanned and are almost unreadable if they contain text (as many do) even when zoomed in, or viewed on the PC. It would be fantastic if they could get this right for the next version of this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have only had this book for a couple of days and have not completely finished reading it yet so cannot comment on all of the chapters, but what I have read so far has been interesting and valuable. Obviously in a book like this that goes into so much depth in so many areas, there are going to be some parts that are not useful to everyone but there is so much detailed information in here that I think any IT pro or Windows developer will find it an interesting and useful read.
This is very different to any other IT book I have read because normally these books just tell you how to do something and perhaps give you a brief explanation of how it works behind the scenes but this book is ALL ABOUT what happens behind the scenes. As a small example: a couple of pages in the Security section explain what exactly happens when you press Ctrl Alt Delete and log in (and also what happens before that point) - it explains which processes, DLLs, APIs, internal functions etc are used and in what order they are used... and that is one of the less detailed parts of this book! Other sections even go far as telling you the names of internal data structures and constants that Windows uses to do its work and although I have only had a brief look at the Memory Management chapter, it seems extremely detailed (over 140 pages).
It is actually more useful to me as an IT pro than I thought as it has given me an insight into things that I use often at work such as Hyper V (although that is one of the less in depth parts, there are still roughly 15 pages dedicated to it), the Volume Shadow Copy service, the Cache system built into Windows, networking, crash dump analysis and much more.
One thing I will say, which is not necessarily negative, is that it is not for beginners. I think really you need to understand at least a little bit about programming concepts and terminology and also be very familiar with Windows in general to really understand what a lot of this book is telling you. I've been an IT Professional for 3 years or so and do some .NET programming whenever I can but I struggle to grasp some of the things that are in here as there is not always an explanation of some of the terms or acronnyms used. To be fair to the author though, I dont think explanations of such things belong in this book as then it would be weighed down with explanations of too many basic concepts etc (and it is already roughly 1100 pages!).
Overall, one of the most interesting IT books I have purchased and I am looking forward to reading the rest of it.
This is very different to any other IT book I have read because normally these books just tell you how to do something and perhaps give you a brief explanation of how it works behind the scenes but this book is ALL ABOUT what happens behind the scenes. As a small example: a couple of pages in the Security section explain what exactly happens when you press Ctrl Alt Delete and log in (and also what happens before that point) - it explains which processes, DLLs, APIs, internal functions etc are used and in what order they are used... and that is one of the less detailed parts of this book! Other sections even go far as telling you the names of internal data structures and constants that Windows uses to do its work and although I have only had a brief look at the Memory Management chapter, it seems extremely detailed (over 140 pages).
It is actually more useful to me as an IT pro than I thought as it has given me an insight into things that I use often at work such as Hyper V (although that is one of the less in depth parts, there are still roughly 15 pages dedicated to it), the Volume Shadow Copy service, the Cache system built into Windows, networking, crash dump analysis and much more.
One thing I will say, which is not necessarily negative, is that it is not for beginners. I think really you need to understand at least a little bit about programming concepts and terminology and also be very familiar with Windows in general to really understand what a lot of this book is telling you. I've been an IT Professional for 3 years or so and do some .NET programming whenever I can but I struggle to grasp some of the things that are in here as there is not always an explanation of some of the terms or acronnyms used. To be fair to the author though, I dont think explanations of such things belong in this book as then it would be weighed down with explanations of too many basic concepts etc (and it is already roughly 1100 pages!).
Overall, one of the most interesting IT books I have purchased and I am looking forward to reading the rest of it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Around October 2008, I invested in the 4th (XP & Server 2000/2003) edition of this book and having been really impressed with its breadth and depth of cover I knew that the 5th edition (whenever it was released) would be a good read, although I naively expected that it would be a simple rehash of the 4th.
What a pleasant surprise, when the 5th (Vista & Server 2008) arrived much larger than 4th and completely rewritten. It's a total complement to the 4th.
The pair are essential for anyone wanting to appreciate the incredible amount of development that has occured from XP to VISTA or for anyone wanting to develop software for use across the current Windows platforms.
The tools described for research and debugging (many free from Sysinternals) are clearly explained. Well done Mark, David & Alex.
Looking forward to the 6th edition for Windows 7 (now that is confusing)
What a pleasant surprise, when the 5th (Vista & Server 2008) arrived much larger than 4th and completely rewritten. It's a total complement to the 4th.
The pair are essential for anyone wanting to appreciate the incredible amount of development that has occured from XP to VISTA or for anyone wanting to develop software for use across the current Windows platforms.
The tools described for research and debugging (many free from Sysinternals) are clearly explained. Well done Mark, David & Alex.
Looking forward to the 6th edition for Windows 7 (now that is confusing)
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Amazing book!
Mark Rusinovich is well....Mark Rusinovich - the name speaks for itself. This book offers great details on how windows actually ticks. Read more
Published on 21 May 2010 by Andrey Petkov
Excellent as Usual
I already had the fourth edition of this book (covering Windows XP and Server 2003) and had been looking forward to the updated version for many months. Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2010 by E. Metcalfe
Excelent book
As an Alex's blog regular follower, I had great expectations on the outcome of this book. I've got to say that based on his previous work, I was a little disappointed on the... Read more
Published on 30 July 2009 by L. Lemos
Excellent as usual from these guys.
Another excellent book from the guys. If you've read their prior efforts, you'll know what to expect - hugely detailed, but readable and understandable descriptions of how windows... Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by Mr. Michael E. Diack
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