Windows Internals: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more, Part 1 (Developer Reference)

The definitive guide fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

Delve inside Windows architecture and internals, and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by a team of internals experts, this classic guide has been fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.

Whether you are a developer or an IT professional, you ll get critical, insider perspectives on how Windows operates. And through hands-on experiments, you ll experience its internal behavior firsthand knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance, and support.

This book will help you:

Understand the Window system architecture and its most important entities, such as processes and threads
Examine how processes manage resources and threads scheduled for execution inside processes
Observe how Windows manages virtual and physical memory
Dig into the Windows I/O system and see how device drivers work and integrate with the rest of the system
Go inside the Windows security model to see how it manages access, auditing, and authorization, and learn about the new mechanisms in Windows 10 and Server 2016