Windows Internals, Part 2: Covering Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows 7

✍ Scribed by Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 674
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Delve inside Windows architecture and internals—and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by three renowned internals experts, this classic guide is fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2—and now presents its coverage in two volumes.

As always, you 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.

In Part 2, you’ll examine:
- Core subsystems for I/O, storage, memory management, cache manager, and file systems
- Startup and shutdown processes
- Crash-dump analysis, including troubleshooting tools and techniques