MS Press - Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, Third Edition

• LOC Page
• Dedication
• Historical Perspective
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
  • Acknowledgments from David Solomon
  • Acknowledgments from Mark Russinovich
• Introduction
  • Structure of the Book
  • Differences in the Third Edition
  • Hands-on Experiments
  • Topics Not Covered
  • A Warning and Caveat
  • Using the Companion CD
  • Support
• Chapter 1 -- Concepts and Tools
  • Foundation Concepts and Terms
  • Digging into Windows 2000 Internals
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 2 -- System Architecture
  • Requirements and Design Goals
  • Operating System Model
  • Architecture Overview
  • Windows 2000 Product Packaging
  • Key System Components
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 3 -- System Mechanisms
  • Trap Dispatching
  • Object Manager
  • Synchronization
  • System Worker Threads
  • Windows 2000 Global Flags
  • Local Procedure Calls (LPCs)
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 4 -- Startup and Shutdown
  • Boot Process
  • Safe Mode
  • Recovery Console
  • Shutdown
  • System Crashes
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 5 -- Management Mechanisms
  • The Registry
  • Services
  • Windows Management Instrumentation
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 6 -- Processes, Threads, and Jobs
  • Process Internals
  • Flow of CreateProcess
  • Thread Internals
  • Flow of CreateThread
  • Thread Scheduling
  • Job Objects
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 7 -- Memory Management
  • Memory Manager Components
  • Services the Memory Manager Provides
  • System Memory Pools
  • Address Space Layout
  • Address Translation
  • Page Fault Handling
  • Virtual Address Descriptors
  • Working Sets
  • Page Frame Number Database
  • Section Objects
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 8 -- Security
  • Security Ratings
  • Security System Components
  • Protecting Objects
  • Security Auditing
  • Logon
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 9 -- I/O System
  • Design Goals
  • I/O System Components
  • I/O Data Structures
  • Driver Loading, Initialization, and Installation
  • I/O Processing
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 10 -- Storage Management
  • The Evolution of Windows 2000 Storage
  • Partitioning
  • Storage Drivers
  • Multipartition Volume Management
  • The Volume Namespace
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 11 -- Cache Manager
  • Key Features of the Windows 2000 Cache Manager
  • Cache Structure
  • Cache Size
  • Cache Data Structures
  • Cache Operation
  • Cache Support Routines
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 12 -- File Systems
  • Windows 2000 File System Formats
  • File System Driver Architecture
  • NTFS Design Goals and Features
  • NTFS File System Driver
  • NTFS On-Disk Structure
  • NTFS Recovery Support
  • NTFS Bad-Cluster Recovery
  • Encrypting File System Security
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 13 -- Networking
  • The OSI Reference Model
  • Networking APIs
  • Network-Resource Name Resolution
  • Protocol Drivers
  • NDIS Drivers
  • Binding
  • Layered Network Services
  • Conclusion
• Footnotes
• About the Authors
  • David Solomon
  • Mark Russinovich