The architecture of Windows NT, a line of operating systems produced and sold by Microsoft, is a layered design that consists of two main components, user...
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Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows...
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Windows NT 3.1 is the first major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, released on July 27, 1993. It marked the company's...
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Windows NT 4.0 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, targeting the data server and personal workstation markets...
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Windows Server (formerly Windows NT Server) is a brand name for server-oriented releases of the Windows NT operating system (OS) that have been developed...
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Windows NT 3.51 is the third major release of the Windows NT operating system, developed by Microsoft for the data server and personal workstation markets...
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followed by Windows NT 3.5 in 1994, and Windows NT 3.51 in 1995. "NT" is an initialism for "New Technology". Unlike the Windows 9x series of operating systems...
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Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor...
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Although almost all Windows programs use the Windows API, on the Windows NT line of operating systems, programs that start early in the Windows startup process...
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assemblies (e.g. System.Windows.Forms.dll). Architecture of Windows NT Booting process of Windows List of Microsoft Windows components Windows API Dynamic-link...
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of MS-DOS 8 is not possible, as it is designed to work as real mode for Windows Me and nothing else. The Windows NT kernel powers all recent Windows operating...
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Object Manager (redirect from Windows NT Object Manager)
(internally called Ob) is a subsystem implemented as part of the Windows Executive which manages Windows resources. Resources, which are surfaced as logical...
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The booting process of Microsoft Windows varies between different releases. In Windows versions 1.01 to Windows 2.11, the system was loaded when WIN.COM...
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by the early 1990s, the Windows line had split into two separate lines of releases: Windows 9x for consumers and Windows NT for businesses and enterprises...
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Ntoskrnl.exe (category Windows NT kernel)
Windows NT operating system kernel executable), also known as the kernel image, contains the kernel and executive layers of the Microsoft Windows NT kernel...
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CONFIG.SYS into the Windows Registry. Architecture of Windows NT Microsoft Windows Caldera v. Microsoft WinGlue FreeWin95 "Windows 95 OSR 2". WinWorld...
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The introduction of Windows XP aimed to unify the consumer-oriented Windows 9x series with the architecture introduced by Windows NT, a change which Microsoft...
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organizational structure, or other factors. In the original Windows Server Domain system (shipped with Windows NT 3.x/4), machines could only be viewed in two states...
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Hardware abstraction (section Microsoft Windows)
file NTOSKRNL.EXE under %WINDOWS%\system32\hal.dll. This allows portability of the Windows NT kernel-mode code to a variety of processors, with different...
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Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally...
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Equipment Corporation, which later inspired the architecture of Windows NT Mica DIY, a UK symbol group of retailers Mika, a given name and surname Micah (disambiguation)...
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Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (category Windows NT architecture)
writes to the Windows Security Log. Forcible termination of lsass.exe will result in the system losing access to any account, including NT AUTHORITY, prompting...
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Hybrid kernel (category Windows NT kernel)
and Windows Server 2022, and powers Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, and the Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles. Windows NT was the...
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Access token (redirect from Token (Windows NT architecture))
inherit a copy of the parent process's primary token. Impersonation token Impersonation is a security concept implemented in Windows NT that allows a server...
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Graphics Device Interface (redirect from Windows Printing System)
needed] Windows apps use Windows API to interact with GDI, for such tasks as drawing lines and curves, rendering fonts, and handling palettes. The Windows USER...
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Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service"...
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and terminates all of the processes belonging to a login session on logout. Booting process of Windows NT Architecture of Windows NT Booting Master boot...
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Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, made available...
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Microsoft POSIX subsystem (category Windows components)
Microsoft POSIX subsystem is one of four subsystems shipped with the first versions of Windows NT, the other three being the Win32 subsystem which provided...
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NEC RISCstation (category MIPS architecture)
the release of Windows NT "Daytona" at a price between US$6000 to US$10000. The RISCstations were based on a modified Jazz architecture licensed from...
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