... variants of WindowsServer 2008: Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Standard, WindowsServer2008 Enterprise, WindowsServer2008 Datacenter, and Windows Server2008for Itanium-Based ... Client andServer Versions Windows ships in both client andserver retail packages. There are six client versions of Windows Vista: WindowsVista Home Basic, WindowsVista Home Premium, WindowsVista ... client editions (for example, directory services and clustering) Table 2-3 lists the differences in memory and processor support forWindowsVistaand Windows Server2008.For a detailed comparison...
... kernel and the HAL use this information to perform architecture-specific and machine-specific actions. Portions of the PCR and PRCB structures are defined publicly in the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) ... manager’s namespace and information about objects (such as the reference count, the number of open handles, security descriptors, and so forth). ■ Process Explorer and Handle from Sysinternals ... is a DPC for a generic I/O timer expiration. The third address is the address of a DPC for an idle performance operation. For more information, see www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/perform/mmdrv.mspx....
... View, and then Handles). You should see a handle containing CheckForOtherInstanceMutex. 2. Right-click on the handle, and select Close Handle. Confirm the action when asked. 3. Now run Windows ... Handles Run Process Explorer, and make sure the lower pane is enabled and configured to show open handles. (Click on View, Lower Pane View, and then Handles). Then open a command prompt and ... further with the release of Windows Vista. When EnterCriticalSection calls NtWaitForKeyedEvent to perform a wait on the keyed event, it can now specify a handle of NULL for the keyed event, telling...
... APIs and replaces the path name of the \Windows\ System32 folder with \Windows\ Syswow64. Wow64 also redirects \Windows\ LastGood to \Windows\ LastGood \syswow64 and \Windows\ Regedit.exe to \Windows\ syswow64\Regedit.exe. ... which stands for debugging framework. It provides the necessary internal functions for registering and listening for debug events, managing the debug object, and packaging the information for consumption ... look for any handles whose threads have exited, and close the handles for the debugger. Otherwise, those threads and processes would actually never exit, because there would always be open handles...
... inside the cell index structure for quick lookups) for all hives except for System and Software for roaming profile compatibility with Windows 2000. For System and Software hives, it uses version ... boot configuration data. (For more information on the BCD, see Chapter 13.) Each entry in the BCD, such as a Windowsinstallation or the command-line settings for the installation, is stored ... Database (BCD) information loaded as a registry hive. This database replaces the Boot.ini file that was used before WindowsVistaand adds greater flexibility and isolation of per-installation...
... run in session 0 and therefore share the window station with the interactive services. However, in WindowsVistaandWindows Server 2008, only processes owned by the system andWindows services ... options and access to a command prompt. For more information on the startup repair tool, see Chapter 13. ■ Windows performance diagnostics, which include Windows boot performance diagnostics, Windows ... shutdown performance diagnostics, Windows standby/resume performance diagnostics, and Windows system responsiveness performance diagnostics. Based on certain timing thresholds and internal...
... dialog box. Windows System resource Manager Windows Server2008 Enterprise Edition andWindowsServer2008 Datacenter Edition include an optionally installable component called Windows System ... short, variable quantums—the default for Windows Vista. If you install Terminal Services on WindowsServer2008 systems and configure the server as an application server, this setting is selected ... quantum for the foreground process, and 2 means that quantum values don’t change for foreground processes. A setting of 0 or 3 means that the default (which is variable forWindowsVistaand fixed...
... watermark. 423that include logon information used for cached domain logons andWindows service user-account logons. (See Chapter 4 for more information on Windows services.) ■ Security Accounts ... boosted to 15 and runs enough to send more data to the sound card. 7. Stop Cpustres andWindows Media Player, and start the MMCSS service again. Priority Boosts for MultiMedia Applications and Games ... Lsass process and client processes and that implement Windows authentication policy. An authentication DLL is responsible for checking whether a given user name and password match, and if so,...
... user-mode Windows CreateProcess function in %SystemRoot%\System32\Kernel32.dll enforces it for executable images. ■ The DLL loading code of Ntdll (%SystemRoot%\System32\Ntdll.dll) enforces it for ... when opening a handle to another process with the OpenProcess Windows API, is checked for by the process manager. Table 6-8 is a full list of privileges, and it describes how and when system ... security IDs (such as Everyone, Interactive, and the like). It then checks its policy database for any granted privileges for all the IDs for this user and adds these privileges to the user’s access...
... \Device\Serial0, and so forth. Try creating your own links with the subst command at a command prompt. 7.3 I/O Processing Now that we’ve covered the structure and types of drivers and the data ... loading and unloading of device drivers so that drivers can be loaded on-demand and not consume system resources when unneeded. ■ Support for Plug and Play, where the system locates and installs ... The Windows command prompt (%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe) enforces it for batch file execution. ■ Windows Scripting Host components that start scripts—%SystemRoot%\System32\Cscript.exe (for...
... and control direct memory access (DMA) operations, and this option enables checks for correct use of the functions andfor the buffers that the I/O manager supplies for DMA operations. ■ Force ... runs as a standard Windows service and is configured for automatic startup as soon as the first UMDF driver for a device is installed. Only one instance of the driver manager runs for all driver ... (VID) for the hardware vendor that made the device and a product ID (PID) that the vendor assigned to the device. (See the WDK for more information on device ID formats.) Together these IDs form...
... management for example, load balancing policies that choose which path to use for routing requests and error detection mechanisms to inform Windows when a path fails. MPIO support is available forWindows ... \Services\Vds\SoftwareProviders. Windows includes the VDS Dynamic Disk Provider ( \Windows \System32\Vdsdyn.dll) for interfacing to dynamic disks and the VDS Basic Provider ( \Windows\ System32\Vdsbas.dll) for interfacing ... common to disks. Windows also provides a handful of disk port drivers. For example, Scsiport.sys is the legacy port driver for disks on SCSI buses, and Ataport.sys is a port driver for IDEbased...
... is used for allocations between 1 and 8 bytes, the second for allocations between 9 and 16 bytes, and so on, until the thirty-second bucket, which is used for allocations between 249 and 256 ... that the pageheap be used only for blocks of certain sizes, address ranges, and/ or originating DLLs. For more information on pageheap, see the Debugging Tools forWindows Help file. 9.5 Virtual ... on both platforms. Three main types of data are mapped into the virtual address space in Windows: per-process private code and data, sessionwide code and data, and systemwide code and data. As...
... million handle count, the process will fail, because the system will have run out of address space available for paged pool allocations. Finally, as of WindowsVistaandWindowsServer 2008, the ... of Windows that supports more than 4 GB of RAM (for example, WindowsServer2008 Enterprise Edition). To force the loading of this PAE-enabled kernel, you can set the pae BCD option to ForceEnable. ... Randomization The next step in ASLR is to randomize the location of the initial thread’s stack (and, subsequently, of each new thread). This randomization is enabled unless the flag StackRandomization...
... is between 256 MB and 32 GB in size, has a transfer rate of 2.5 MB per second or higher for random 4-KB reads, and has a transfer rate of 1.75 MB per second or higher for random 512-KB writes, ... client edition of Windows (Windows Server editions disable prefetching by default), you can see the prefetcher check forand read the application’s prefetch file (if it exists), and roughly 10 ... Windows provides a way for user-mode processes and kernel-mode drivers to be notified when physical memory, paged pool, nonpaged pool, and commit charge are low and/ or plentiful. This information...