... select commands and command options from the drop-down
menus and toolbars. For new and experienced users alike, menus and toolbars offer an easy-to-remember
method for accessing commands. If you’re ... need to rely on the Command window and dynamic input display as much.
For new and casual users, however, the Command window and dynamic input display can be
helpful in understanding what steps to ... Along the top is the
menu bar,
and just below that are the Workspaces and Standard Annotation
toolbars. At the bottom are the
Command window
and the
status bar.
To the right...
... tables and external spreadsheets
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theses. These command names provide continuity for readers accustomed to working at the Com-
mand prompt.
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... variants of Windows Server 2008: Windows Web Server 2008, Windows
Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server2008 Enterprise, Windows Server2008 Datacenter, and
Windows Server2008 for Itanium-Based ... for Windows Vista and
Windows Server2008. For a detailed comparison chart of the different editions of Windows
Server 2008, see www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-specs.aspx. ... process and a server process on the same computer. Among other things, ALPC is sed as a
local transport for remote procedure call (RPC), an industry-standard communication acility for
client and server...
... uniprocessor and the APIC on a
multiprocessor by using the !pic and !apic kernel debugger commands, respectively. Here’s the
output of the !pic command on a uniprocessor. (Note that the !pic command ... 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 ... a62084ac 00000331 [ 5/19 /2008 16:06:22.022] thread 89a1c020
10. 18 8ab02198 ec7a2c4c 00000330 [ 5/19 /2008 16:01:10.554] thread 8ab02110
11. 19 8564aa20 45dae868 00000330 [ 5/19 /2008 15:56:31.008]...
... 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 ...
clicking View, Lower Pane 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 ... ZwCreateEvent) and use handles instead of
object pointers.
Object handles provide additional benefits. First, except for what they refer to, there is no
difference between a file handle, an event handle,...
... Pane View, and then Handles.) We also want to look at unnamed
handles, so click on View, Show Unnamed Handles And Mappings. Now click on the Windbg.exe
process, and look at its handle table. ... file and thread handles. Recall that each
time a load DLL event is sent, a handle to the image file is duplicated by the kernel and handed off
in the event structure, as is the case with the handle ... is finished using the handles and performs the continue call, Kernel32.dll
will parse these structures, look for any handles whose threads have exited, and close the handles
for the debugger....
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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and thus cannot affect the operation of applications on the system.
Nonprivileged users and applications can read systemwide data and can add new keys and values
to systemwide ... device drivers
to load and how various subsystems—such as the memory manager and process
manager—configure themselves and tune system behavior.
■ During logon, Explorer and other Windows components ... on the working and failing systems, and save
the output to a log file. Then open the good and bad log files with Microsoft Excel (accepting the
defaults in the Import wizard), and delete the...
... P
olicy just keeps getting bigger and more powerful. The new categories of GP settings in the client and
server Windows Server2008 platforms seem to be eminently useful and practical. The only downside ... situations.
Windows Server 2008- and Vista-aware workstations may have multiple power-related buttons: power, sleep,
and the lid switch that closes when you close a laptop display. In addition, the Vista and ... intriguing name: "Virtualize file and registry write failures to per-user
locations." This is on by default, and it allows Vista and Windows Server2008 to provide greater compatibility
with...
... (VDM), the flag is ignored.
■ If the caller is sending a handle to a monitor as an output handle instead of a console andle,
standard handle flags are ignored.
■ If the creation flags specify ... terms and concepts explained in Chapters
1 and 2, such as the difference between a process and a thread, the Windows virtual address space
layout, and the difference between user mode and kernel ... it can read and write arbitrary process
memory, inject code, suspend and resume threads, and query information on other processes.
Tools like Process Explorer and Task Manager need and request...
... install Terminal Services on Windows Server2008 systems and configure
the server as an application server, this setting is selected so that the users on the terminal server
will have the same quantum ... the following
dialog box.
Windows System resource Manager
Windows Server2008 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server2008 Datacenter Edition include an
optionally installable component called ... to see the handles.
2. Select Lsm.exe from the list of processes, and look at the handle table. Make sure that the
lower pane is shown (View, Show Lower Pane) and is displaying handle table...
... standards helps the
government, corporations, and home users protect proprietary and personal data stored in
computer systems. The current security rating standard used by the United States and ... !process
command or Process Explorer. Follow these steps to create and view an unnamed job object:
1. From the command prompt, use the runas command to create a process running the
command prompt ... process
(started on demand by Winlogon when the SAS is performed) and used to obtain a user’s name
and password, smartcard PIN, or biometric data (such as a fingerprint). The standard CPs are
%SystemRoot%\System32\authui.dll...
... made up of a header and zero or more access control entry
(ACE) structures. There are two types of ACLs: DACLs and SACLs. In a DACL, each ACE
contains a SID and an access mask (and a set of flags, ... host multiple ActiveX controls and scripts
and must assume that they were not written to operate correctly with standard user rights.
In addition to file system and registry virtualization, some ... to simplify the server s job.
Impersonation lets a server notify the SRM that the server is temporarily adopting the
security profile of a client making a resource request. The server can then...
...
\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 ... system, including the I/O
manager, Plug and Play (PnP) manager, and power manager. Then we’ll examine the structure and
components of the I/O system and the various types of device drivers....