The definitive guide to modern internal Windows functions: comprehensive coverage of virtual reality, file systems, boot processes, security, and much more. For advanced computer professionals, this is the ultimate and up-to-date resource on how the core components of Windows operate "beneath the surface." Using this guide, experienced developers can build more powerful and scalable software, administrators can troubleshoot complex system and performance issues, and security researchers can strengthen their systems.

This Seventh Edition is fully updated with May 2021 (21H1/2104) updates for Windows 10 and Windows Server (2022, 2019, and 2016). It includes extensive content on Hyper-V as well as thoroughly revised chapters on the boot process, new storage technologies, and Windows management and system mechanisms. As always, it offers unparalleled insights based on internal access to Microsoft's source code, with practical experimental applications using the latest debugging tools to reveal Windows' internal behaviors up close.

With Windows 11 introducing new user interface design elements based on the same core technologies as Windows 10, readers will be well prepared for this new chapter of computing.

Suggested topics:

• System mechanisms for driver and application support, including ALPC, Object Manager, synchronization, WNF, WoW64, and the processor execution model.
• Exploration of underlying hardware architecture, including trap handling, separation, and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
• Understanding Windows virtualization and how virtualization-based security (VBS) protects against operating system vulnerabilities.
• Deepening knowledge of core management and configuration mechanisms, including the Registry, Windows services, WMI, and task scheduling.
• Exploring diagnostic services such as Windows Event Tracing (ETW) and DTrace.
• Learn how cache managers and file system drivers interact to provide reliable support for files, directories, and disks, including Persistent Memory (NVDIMM) DAX devices.
• Understanding NTFS, ReFS, and other Windows file systems.
• Review of Windows boot/shutdown processes and system components involved in the boot flow.
• Analysis of UEFI-based Secure Boot, measured boot, and secure launch mechanisms.

This book is intended for experienced developers, architects, quality and performance specialists, administrators, security professionals, and support staff. It assumes you're a Windows user with advanced capabilities.

Pages: 912, Dimensions: 18.6x18.6cm