The official comprehensive developer's guide to the Windows NT kernel.

To unlock the full power and performance of Microsoft Windows NT you need this classic newly updated guide to Windows NT architecture. For developers and system administrators this book is written in full partnership with the Windows NT product development team at Microsoft. It takes you deep into the core components of Windows NT. And it gives you abundant information insight and perspective that you can quickly apply for better design debugging performance and troubleshooting. You'll also find:


Hands-on experiments that let you see the internal behavior of Windows NT using available utilities

Valuable material unavailable until now including chapters on the cache manager and NTFS

A look ahead to Windows NT 5.0 via notes throughout the book and a final chapter devoted to upcoming developments