... specific
port, such as ATA, SCSI, or USB. As of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, only the ATA
port driver (%SystemRoot%\System32\Ataport.sys) and USB port driver (%SystemRoot%
\System32\Usbstor.sys) ... file, Windows copies the
catalog file to a directory under \Windows\ System32\Catroot. Navigate to that directory in
Explorer and you find the subdirectory that conta...
... backup,
and data protection. Windows support for iSCSI comes in the form of the Microsoft iSCSI
Software Initiator, which can be installed as a feature on Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows ... which path to use for
routing requests and error detection mechanisms to inform Windows when a path fails. MPIO
support is available for Windows Server 2008 in the form of the...
... to the Windows
Software Development Kit (SDK) and Windows Driver Kit (WDK) documentation on MSDN for
a complete description of the available functions and their interfaces.
9.2.1 Large and Small ... call the Windows CreateFileMapping or CreateFileMappingNuma
function, specifying the file handle to map it to (or INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE for a
page-filebacked section) and optiona...
... Randomization
The next step in ASLR is to randomize the location of the initial thread’s stack (and, subsequently,
of each new thread). This randomization is enabled unless the flag StackRandomization ... 697
Heap Randomization
Finally, ASLR randomizes the location of the initial process heap (and subsequent heaps) when
created in user mode. The RtlCreateHeap function uses another pseudo...
... memory across editions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, along
with the limiting factors.
Although some 64-bit processors can access up to 2 TB of physical memory (and up to 1 TB
even when ...
earlier, kernel stacks in Windows are dynamically allocated, expanded, and freed whenever a
callback to user mode is performed and/ or returns, or when a driver performs a ca...
... views into the system cache and flush pages to disk by
running the Reliability and Performance Monitor and adding the Data Maps/sec and Lazy Write
Flushes/sec counters and then copying a large ... but both
the echo and more commands are. Thus, a simple way to view streams in action is to create a
named stream using echo and then display it using more. The following command s...
... between 32-bit Windows (Windows) applications and MS-DOS and 16-bit
Windows applications is a much closer one, however. The Windows area in Figure 11-28
represents file names that the Windows subsystem ... and
Windows Server 2008 without actually changing the format of the NTFS data structures, which is
why the NTFS format version number, 3.1, is the same as for Windows...
... Attributes dialog box for a file in Windows Explorer. Both Windows Explorer and
the cipher command rely on the EncryptFile Windows API that Advapi32.dll (Advanced
Windows APIs DLL) exports. Advapi32 ... represents the server s end of the connection. The server can perform
receive and send operations by using functions such as recv and send. Like Winsock clients,
servers ca...
... licensing
information for the installed SKU of Windows, boot options such as numproc and onecpu, and
whether dynamic partitioning is enabled (Windows Server 2008 systems only). After all the
available ...
structures and creates the driver and device object types. It then calls the Plug and Play manager,
power manager, and HAL to begin the various stages of dynamic devic...
... and drivers
present on the machine. This is the default setting for both Windows Vista and Windows Server
2008.
■ Small memory dump A small memory dump, which is typically between 128 KB and ... the Windows Recovery Environment, choose the Command Prompt
option, and then execute the bootrec /scanos and bootrec /rebuildbcd commands. These commands
will scan each volume l...