Windows® Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 1

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About the Authors

Mark E. Russinovich is a Technical Fellow in the Windows Azure™ group at Microsoft. He is coauthor of the Windows Internals book series, lead author for Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference

, cofounder of the Sysinternals web site, and a highly regarded expert on Windows internals and computer security.

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 Ionescu is a software engineer and consultant specializing in low-level system software and operating system design. He teaches Windows internals courses with David Solomon and is active in the security research community.