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- name logging traces, Tracing and Logging
- name resolution, Explicit File I/O
- named data attributes, File Records
- Named Pipe File System (Npfs) driver, IRP Stack Locations
- named pipe file system drivers, Smss, Csrss, and Wininit
- named pipes, Using Completion Ports, When There Is No Crash Dump, When There Is No Crash Dump
- named streams, UDF, Multiple Data Streams, NTFS File System Driver
- namespace subdirectories, Disk Device Objects
- namespaces, The Mount Manager–Volume Mounting, The Mount Manager, Mount Points, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting, Link Tracking–Encryption, Link Tracking, Encryption
- shell, Link Tracking–Encryption, Link Tracking, Encryption
- volumes, The Mount Manager–Volume Mounting, The Mount Manager, Mount Points, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting
- naming, I/O System, Disk Device Objects, Shared Memory and Mapped Files
- disk class drivers, Disk Device Objects
- I/O system, I/O System
- section objects, Shared Memory and Mapped Files
- NAND-type flash memory, Solid State Disks–File Deletion and the Trim Command, NAND-Type Flash Memory, File Deletion and the Trim Command, File Deletion and the Trim Command
- NAS (network-attached storage), Booting from iSCSI
- National Language System (NLS) files, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- native applications, BIOS Preboot, Smss, Csrss, and Wininit
- NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification), Layered Drivers
- neither I/O, IRP Buffer Management, IRP Buffer Management
- nested file systems, Nested File Systems
- nested partitions, GUID Partition Table Partitioning
- nesting VHDs, Virtual Hard Disk Support
- .NET Framework, Resource Managers
- network adapters, Types of Device Drivers, The Start Value, 32-Bit Client Effective Memory Limits
- network API drivers, Types of Device Drivers
- network devices, Types of Device Drivers, The Plug and Play (PnP) Manager, Caching with the Direct Memory Access Interfaces
- Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS), Layered Drivers
- network endpoints, Using Completion Ports
- network file system drivers, User-Initiated I/O Cancellation, NTFS File System Driver
- network interface controller ROM, Booting from iSCSI
- network protocol drivers, Fast I/O
- network providers, Smss, Csrss, and Wininit
- network redirectors, Cache Coherency, Write Throttling
- network storage management, Storage Management
- Network subkey, Driver Loading in Safe Mode, Driver Loading in Safe Mode
- network-attached storage (NAS), Booting from iSCSI
- new operator, Heap Manager
- New Simple Volume wizard, Mirrored Volumes
- NLS files, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems, Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems, Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
- NLS object directory, Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
- NMI (nonmaskable interrupt), Causes of Windows Crashes, Hung or Unresponsive Systems, Hardware Malfunctions
- NMICrashDump file, Hardware Malfunctions
- no execute page protection (DEP), Protecting Memory–Copy-on-Write, No Execute Page Protection, No Execute Page Protection, Software Data Execution Prevention–Copy-on-Write, Software Data Execution Prevention, Copy-on-Write, Copy-on-Write, Copy-on-Write, User Address Space Layout, Heap Randomization, Physical Address Extension (PAE)
- address space allocation, User Address Space Layout
- ASLR, Heap Randomization
- memory manager, Protecting Memory–Copy-on-Write, No Execute Page Protection, Copy-on-Write, Copy-on-Write
- PAE, No Execute Page Protection, Physical Address Extension (PAE)
- software data execution prevention, Software Data Execution Prevention–Copy-on-Write, Copy-on-Write
- stack cookies and pointer encoding, Software Data Execution Prevention
- No Reboot (Driver Verifier), Buffer Overruns, Memory Corruption, and Special Pool
- no-execute memory, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- nocrashautoreboot element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- nodes (NUMA), NUMA
- noerrordisplay element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- nointegritychecks element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- nolowmem element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- nolowmen BCD option, Physical Address Extension (PAE), Windows Client Memory Limits
- Non Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA), NUMA
- non-fault-tolerant volumes, NTFS Bad-Cluster Recovery
- non-PAE kernel, No Execute Page Protection
- non-PAE systems, x86 Virtual Address Translation, x86 Virtual Address Translation, Page Directories, Page Tables and Page Table Entries, Hardware vs. Software Write Bits in Page Table Entries
- non-Plug and Play drivers, Driver Objects and Device Objects, Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF), Level of Plug and Play Support
- creating device objects, Driver Objects and Device Objects
- KMDF initialization routines, Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF)
- PnP levels of support, Level of Plug and Play Support
- nonbased sections, Section Objects
- noncached I/O, Opening Devices, Scatter/Gather I/O, File System Interfaces, Explicit File I/O, Memory Manager’s Modified and Mapped Page Writer, Cache Manager’s Lazy Writer
- file object attributes, Opening Devices
- file objects, Explicit File I/O
- IRPs, Memory Manager’s Modified and Mapped Page Writer
- memory manager and, File System Interfaces
- page writers, Cache Manager’s Lazy Writer
- scatter/gather I/O and, Scatter/Gather I/O
- noncached memory mapping, Protecting Memory
- noncached read operations, File System Interfaces, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing
- noncommitted transactions, Analysis Pass, Undo Pass
- nonencoded pointers, Software Data Execution Prevention
- nonmaskable interrupt (NMI), Causes of Windows Crashes, Hung or Unresponsive Systems, Hardware Malfunctions
- nonpageable memory, Large and Small Pages
- nonpaged look-aside lists, Look-Aside Lists
- nonpaged pool, Pool Sizes–Pool Sizes, Pool Sizes, Monitoring Pool Usage–Look-Aside Lists, Monitoring Pool Usage, Look-Aside Lists, Virtual Address Space Layouts, 64-Bit Address Space Layouts, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management–User Address Space Layout, System Virtual Address Space Quotas, User Address Space Layout, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit, Virtual Address Descriptors, NUMA, Advanced Crash Dump Analysis–Stack Trashes, Stack Trashes
- address space, 64-Bit Address Space Layouts
- commit charge, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit
- debugging information, Advanced Crash Dump Analysis–Stack Trashes, Stack Trashes
- expanding, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management
- memory quotas, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management–User Address Space Layout, System Virtual Address Space Quotas, User Address Space Layout
- NUMA nodes, NUMA
- performance counters, Monitoring Pool Usage–Look-Aside Lists, Monitoring Pool Usage, Look-Aside Lists
- reclaiming virtual addresses, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management
- sizes, Pool Sizes–Pool Sizes, Pool Sizes
- system space, Virtual Address Space Layouts
- VADs, Virtual Address Descriptors
- nonpaged pool buffers, IRP Buffer Management, User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
- nonpaged pool session memory, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier
- nonpaged system memory, I/O Requests to Layered Drivers
- nonpower-managed queues, KMDF I/O Model
- nonprototype PFNs, Page Frame Number Database–Page Frame Number Database, Page Frame Number Database
- nonresident attributes (NTFS), Resident and Nonresident Attributes–Data Compression and Sparse Files, Resident and Nonresident Attributes, Resident and Nonresident Attributes, Resident and Nonresident Attributes, Data Compression and Sparse Files
- nonsparse data, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Sparse Files, Sparse Files
- nontransacted writers and readers, Isolation, Isolation, Resource Managers
- nonvolatile data, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing
- nonvolatile memory, Solid State Disks
- nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM), ReadyDrive, Unified Caching, The UEFI Boot Process
- NOR-type flash memory, Solid State Disks
- Normal I/O priority, I/O Priorities, Prioritization Strategies, I/O Priority Boosts and Bumps, I/O Priority Boosts and Bumps, I/O Priority Boosts and Bumps
- Notmyfault.exe, I/O Cancellation for Thread Termination, I/O Cancellation for Thread Termination, Monitoring Pool Usage, Notmyfault
- noumex element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- novesa element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- Npfs (Named Pipe File System) driver, IRP Stack Locations
- Nt5.cat file, Driver Installation
- Nt5ph.cat file, Driver Installation
- Ntbtlog.txt file, Boot Logging in Safe Mode
- NtCreateFile function, Opening Devices, Explicit File I/O
- NtCreateIoCompletion system service, I/O Completion Port Operation
- NtCreatePagingFile service, Page Files
- NtDeviceIoControlFile function, IRP Buffer Management
- Ntdll.dll, Opening Devices, Heap Manager, Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
- NTFS file system, I/O System Components, File Deletion and the Trim Command, Spanned Volumes, Mount Points–Volume Mounting, Mount Points, Volume Mounting, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS, NTFS, NTFS, NTFS, NTFS, NTFS, NTFS, File System Driver Architecture, High-End File System Requirements–Data Redundancy and Fault Tolerance, Recoverability, Security, Data Redundancy and Fault Tolerance, Data Redundancy and Fault Tolerance, Data Redundancy and Fault Tolerance, Multiple Data Streams, Multiple Data Streams–Hard Links, Unicode-Based Names, Unicode-Based Names, General Indexing Facility, General Indexing Facility, Hard Links–Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Hard Links, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Compression and Sparse Files, Per-User Volume Quotas, Per-User Volume Quotas, Encryption–Defragmentation, Encryption, POSIX Support, Defragmentation, Defragmentation, NTFS File System Driver, NTFS On-Disk Structure, Volumes, Master File Table, Master File Table, Master File Table, File Records, File Names, Data Compression and Sparse Files, Data Compression and Sparse Files, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Sparse Files, Sparse Files, The Change Journal File–Indexing, Indexing, Object IDs, Reparse Points, Transaction Support–NTFS Recovery Support, Isolation–Transactional APIs, Isolation, Isolation, Isolation, Isolation, Transactional APIs, Transactional APIs, Resource Managers–On-Disk Implementation, Resource Managers, On-Disk Implementation, On-Disk Implementation, On-Disk Implementation–NTFS Recovery Support, Recovery Implementation, NTFS Recovery Support, NTFS Recovery Support, NTFS Recovery Support–Encrypting File System Security, Design, Metadata Logging, Metadata Logging–Recovery, Log File Service, Recovery, Self-Healing, Encrypting File System Security, Troubleshooting Crashes
- alternate data streams, NTFS
- change journal file, The Change Journal File–Indexing, Indexing
- clusters, NTFS, NTFS On-Disk Structure
- compression, NTFS, Compression and Sparse Files, Data Compression and Sparse Files, Data Compression and Sparse Files, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Compressing Nonsparse Data
- crash codes, Troubleshooting Crashes
- data redundancy, Data Redundancy and Fault Tolerance
- data structures, NTFS File System Driver
- defragmentation, Defragmentation
- encryption, NTFS, Encryption–Defragmentation, Encryption, Defragmentation
- file names, File Records, File Names
- file system driver, File System Driver Architecture
- flash memory, File Deletion and the Trim Command
- hard links, NTFS, Hard Links–Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions
- high-end requirements, High-End File System Requirements–Data Redundancy and Fault Tolerance, Data Redundancy and Fault Tolerance
- I/O system, I/O System Components
- indexing, General Indexing Facility
- isolation, Isolation–Transactional APIs, Isolation, Transactional APIs
- master file tables, Master File Table, Master File Table, Master File Table
- metadata logging, Metadata Logging–Recovery, Log File Service, Recovery
- mount points, Mount Points–Volume Mounting, Mount Points, Volume Mounting
- multiple data streams, Multiple Data Streams–Hard Links, Unicode-Based Names, Hard Links
- object attributes, Multiple Data Streams
- object IDs, Object IDs
- per-user volume quotas, exFAT, Per-User Volume Quotas, Per-User Volume Quotas
- POSIX support, POSIX Support
- recoverability, NTFS, Recoverability, Data Redundancy and Fault Tolerance, NTFS Recovery Support–Encrypting File System Security, Design, Metadata Logging, Encrypting File System Security
- reparse points, Reparse Points
- resource managers, Resource Managers–On-Disk Implementation, On-Disk Implementation
- security, NTFS, Security
- self-healing, Self-Healing
- spanned volumes, Spanned Volumes
- sparse files, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Sparse Files, Sparse Files
- symbolic links and junctions, NTFS, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions, Symbolic (Soft) Links and Junctions
- transaction logging, On-Disk Implementation–NTFS Recovery Support, Recovery Implementation, NTFS Recovery Support
- transaction support, Transaction Support–NTFS Recovery Support, Isolation, Isolation, Isolation, Transactional APIs, Resource Managers, On-Disk Implementation, NTFS Recovery Support
- Unicode-based names, Unicode-Based Names, General Indexing Facility
- volumes, Volumes
- NTFS file system driver (Ntfs.sys), NTFS, NTFS File System Driver, NTFS File System Driver, NTFS File System Driver
- NtfsCopyReadA routine, Fast I/O
- NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM stop code, Causes of Windows Crashes
- NtInitializeRegistry function, Smss, Csrss, and Wininit
- Ntkrnlpa.exe kernel, Physical Address Extension (PAE)
- NtQuerySystemInformation API, I/O Priority Boosts and Bumps, Logical Prefetcher
- NtReadFile function, Synchronous and Asynchronous I/O, IRP Buffer Management, Explicit File I/O, Code Overwrite and System Code Write Protection
- NtRemoverIoCompletion system service, I/O Completion Port Operation
- NtSetInformationFile system service, I/O Completion Port Operation
- NtSetIoCompletion system service, I/O Completion Port Operation
- NtSetSystemInformation API, Scenarios
- NtShutdownSystem function, Shutdown
- NtWriteFile function, IRP Buffer Management, I/O Request to a Single-Layered Driver, Explicit File I/O
- null modem cables, Hung or Unresponsive Systems, When There Is No Crash Dump
- NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Architecture), Kernel-Mode Heaps (System Memory Pools), NUMA
- NUMA I/O, Disk Class, Port, and Miniport Drivers
- NUMA nodes, Disk Class, Port, and Miniport Drivers, PFN Data Structures, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- numproc element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- NVRAM (nonvolatile RAM), ReadyDrive, Unified Caching, The UEFI Boot Process
- nx element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr