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Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition 5th ed. Edition

by Mark Russinovich (Author), David A. Solomon (Author), Alex Ionescu (Contributor)
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See how the core components of the Windows operating system work behind the scenes—guided by a team of internationally renowned internals experts. Fully updated for Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Vista®, this classic guide delivers key architectural insights on system design, debugging, performance, and support—along with hands-on experiments to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand.

Delve inside Windows architecture and internals:

  • Understand how the core system and management mechanisms work—from the object manager to services to the registry
  • Explore internal system data structures using tools like the kernel debugger
  • Grasp the scheduler's priority and CPU placement algorithms
  • Go inside the Windows security model to see how it authorizes access to data
  • Understand how Windows manages physical and virtual memory
  • Tour the Windows networking stack from top to bottom—including APIs, protocol drivers, and network adapter drivers
  • Troubleshoot file-system access problems and system boot problems
  • Learn how to analyze crashes
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  5. Publication date
    June 25, 2009
  6. Part of series
    Developer Reference
  7. Language
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  8. Dimensions
    7.5 x 2.25 x 9.5 inches
  9. Print length
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Mark E. Russinovich is chief software architect and cofounder of Winternals Software, a company that specializes in advanced systems software for Windows. He authored the Sysinternals tools featured in this book. Mark has a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a senior contributing editor for Windows® IT Pro Magazine.

David A. Solomon is coauthor of the WINDOWS INTERNALS book series and teaches classes on Windows internals to corporations worldwide, including Microsoft®. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft technical conferences and previously was a lead developer for the VMS operating system.

Alex is currently studying at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and is in his first year of obtaining a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering. He is also a Microsoft® Student Ambassador and is representing the company on campus as a Technical Rep.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; 5th ed. edition (June 25, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735625301
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735625303
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 2.25 x 9.5 inches
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Found the text to be intensely overwhelming and I found it hard to take the individual pieces and see how they fit in the big picture. Found this book to be overkill for purpose I bought it (understanding windows for application development).
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Edward A. Averill
5.0 out of 5 stars A sanity-saver and phenomenal reference
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2010
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I've recently been transitioning from WinCE and Linux driver to Vista/Win7 drivers and middleware, and while there's a ton of information online chasing down accurate data when you have a deadline can be fairly daunting.

I'd heard good buzz about this book so I hit Amazon and grabbed a copy. And, after having it next to my workstation for 2 weeks, I can say that in my opinion this is the best-organized, most complete, and accessible book on Windows internals and architecture I've ever found. I have yet to run into an issue in my real-world work that I couldn't get some insight on in this book, typically inside a few minutes. For someone in the trenches as a contractor, where I never know what kind of curve I'll get thrown, this book is worth it's weight in Tums.. erm.. gold.

The only thing I'd wish for is more info on the Windows Driver Framework, but that's an entire book on it's own, I guess, and this thing is already hefty enough.
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Jason Fossen
5.0 out of 5 stars Open the hood and get your hands dirty in the engine
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2009
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You don't have to be a C/C++ developer to enjoy this book, it's for anyone who wants to dig into the guts of Windows. The book provides a guided tour of Windows internals using the Sysinternals tools and other free utilities from Microsoft's web site. If you're worried that this material doesn't apply to Windows 7, don't worry, most of it does, and there are nice videos on the Channel9 page of the MSDN site which go over some of the differences between Vista and 7 to fill the gaps. Importantly, this is a hands-on book with lots of tool walk-throughs to bring the abstract material to life, so start with the topics which interest you the most (security, networking stack, I/O, whatever) and jump around the chapters while sitting at a test computer, you don't have to read it cover to cover like a textbook.
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Martin Drenovac
5.0 out of 5 stars Windows Internals (not just for geeks)
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2009
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I ordered the book on the basis of my admiration of Mark Russ.. brilliance & in his layman speak about matters as intense & technical as an O/S kernel. However, when i received the book I found it just as crisp in its detail, very low key on the techno speak & abundant with detailed easy to understand technical material.

It doesn't leave you googling for explanation on any aspect that it mentions, all the detailed and inter-related topics are simply there.

I found myself reading aspect of the kernel that in reality are of no interest to me, simply read them there because the explanation was crisp, precise and so easy to follow.

Love the book, excellent value for money via Amazon through which I buy all my technical books even though I'm in Sydney - Aust.
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Michael Gautier
5.0 out of 5 stars Mastering Windows Systems Administration
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2013
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Knowing the various corners of Microsoft Windows can be useful in optimizing and troubleshooting software applications and systems for the platform. This was what I gained from the 4th edition of the book when I read it in 2005 despite having used Microsoft Windows since 1992 and MS-DOS since 1989. The book provides you with an extensive base of knowledge about every aspect of Microsoft Windows at a systems level. Whatever you need to know about Windows as far as it's technical limits and capabilities in terms of how the system runs, this book has all the information.
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Andrew Malcolm
5.0 out of 5 stars Depth off the deep end
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2013
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If you want to know what makes Windows tick, this reference provides an EXCELLENT nuts and bolts reference for how everything really works under the hood. This book has been an invaluable professional learning resource for me. It goes into great detail about how core technologies, protocols, and security components work, both in workgroup and domain environments. I'd call this book required reading for Windows SysAdmins.
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Joe
2.0 out of 5 stars My poroduct arrived in perfect condition
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016
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I've gotten by my entire adult life putting together and tweaking PC's without Windows Internals. I figured it was time to check this publication out. Most of the same information you can find out there on the internet. Now I do imagine that there are times when you'll need a good reference for solving problems no one else runs into. I've just personally never found any piece of enlightenment from such a publication.
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SemioticLabyrinth
4.0 out of 5 stars Linux lover loved this book!
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2016
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I'm a Linux guy all the way, but this book made me appreciate Windows as an OS. It showed me that for all the fighting, there's actually a lot in common between the two. My career took me toward web development, but I'm sure this would have been one of my favorite background knowledge books for Windows if I had gone that way. Russinovich deserves his accolades.
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David García Cancio
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2014
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Love it!. I always wanted to know why Windows wouldn't do things as I wanted it to do it!. Now I know that it was me that was at a fault!. ummm Real thanks Mark for the many hours of fun and understanding you've given up to us! (sorry for being selfish but KEEP IT UP!!!)
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Bernd Pfeuffer
5.0 out of 5 stars Wie erwartet: sehr informativ
Reviewed in Germany on October 28, 2009
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Dieses Buch ist einfach das Standardwerk für alle, die bei Windows hinter die Kulissen schauen wollen. Am interessantesten find ich die Stellen, wo auch mal erzählt wird, warum eine Designentscheidung so und nicht anders ausfiel.
Wer allerdings näheres zur historischen Entwicklung diverser Features wissen will, muss Raymond Chen lesen (The Old New Thing).
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C.W
5.0 out of 5 stars Very in depth resource for IT Pros and Developers
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2009
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I have only had this book for a couple of days and have not completely finished reading it yet so cannot comment on all of the chapters, but what I have read so far has been interesting and valuable. Obviously in a book like this that goes into so much depth in so many areas, there are going to be some parts that are not useful to everyone but there is so much detailed information in here that I think any IT pro or Windows developer will find it an interesting and useful read.

This is very different to any other IT book I have read because normally these books just tell you how to do something and perhaps give you a brief explanation of how it works behind the scenes but this book is ALL ABOUT what happens behind the scenes. As a small example: a couple of pages in the Security section explain what exactly happens when you press Ctrl Alt Delete and log in (and also what happens before that point) - it explains which processes, DLLs, APIs, internal functions etc are used and in what order they are used... and that is one of the less detailed parts of this book! Other sections even go far as telling you the names of internal data structures and constants that Windows uses to do its work and although I have only had a brief look at the Memory Management chapter, it seems extremely detailed (over 140 pages).

It is actually more useful to me as an IT pro than I thought as it has given me an insight into things that I use often at work such as Hyper V (although that is one of the less in depth parts, there are still roughly 15 pages dedicated to it), the Volume Shadow Copy service, the Cache system built into Windows, networking, crash dump analysis and much more.

One thing I will say, which is not necessarily negative, is that it is not for beginners. I think really you need to understand at least a little bit about programming concepts and terminology and also be very familiar with Windows in general to really understand what a lot of this book is telling you. I've been an IT Professional for 3 years or so and do some .NET programming whenever I can but I struggle to grasp some of the things that are in here as there is not always an explanation of some of the terms or acronnyms used. To be fair to the author though, I dont think explanations of such things belong in this book as then it would be weighed down with explanations of too many basic concepts etc (and it is already roughly 1100 pages!).

Overall, one of the most interesting IT books I have purchased and I am looking forward to reading the rest of it.
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R. Ash
5.0 out of 5 stars After the 4th and the 5th, I shall be pre-ordering the 6th ;-}
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2009
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Around October 2008, I invested in the 4th (XP & Server 2000/2003) edition of this book and having been really impressed with its breadth and depth of cover I knew that the 5th edition (whenever it was released) would be a good read, although I naively expected that it would be a simple rehash of the 4th.

What a pleasant surprise, when the 5th (Vista & Server 2008) arrived much larger than 4th and completely rewritten. It's a total complement to the 4th.

The pair are essential for anyone wanting to appreciate the incredible amount of development that has occured from XP to VISTA or for anyone wanting to develop software for use across the current Windows platforms.

The tools described for research and debugging (many free from Sysinternals) are clearly explained. Well done Mark, David & Alex.

Looking forward to the 6th edition for Windows 7 (now that is confusing)
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Andrey Petkov
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2010
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Mark Rusinovich is well....Mark Rusinovich - the name speaks for itself. This book offers great details on how windows actually ticks. Pools, APC, Memory Management, Networking, Drivers, etc., you name it - it's there. A book which is also a great reference, for if you or your company is doing windows related programming is a must have in the library.

Mark also explains about his sysinternals tools and how to use and get the most of them. Windows Debugging Tools are also covered in great details. Amazing stuff. It's one of those books that you really need a computer beside you, because the techniques you will see throughout the book, you will want to try immediately.

Microsoft Windows is immensely huge and complex. Reading about how it has been composed with notions of extensibility, composability, security is great experience for anybody who is serious about programming.

Great book! Highly recommended.
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E. Metcalfe
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as Usual
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2010
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I already had the fourth edition of this book (covering Windows XP and Server 2003) and had been looking forward to the updated version for many months. The new version covering Vista and Windows Server 2008 is not just a rehash of the previous edition but a drains-up rewrite covering a huge amount of topics that have not appeared in previous editions.

As this book covers the Windows kernel it's certainly not for the novice, however as a resource for professional programmers and system administrators it is unparalleled. Congratulations to Mark Russinovich and David Solomon on another excellent title in the Windows Internals range - I can't wait for the sixth edition!
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