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wait functions, Memory Notification Events
wait locks, KMDF Data Model
wait states, Completing an I/O Request
WaitForMultipleObjects function, The IoCompletion Object
waking power state, The Power Manager, The Power Manager
watermarked desktops, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
WDF (Windows Driver Foundation), Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF)KMDF I/O Model, Structure and Operation of a KMDF Driver, KMDF Data Model, KMDF I/O Model
WdfDeviceCreate function, KMDF Data Model
WDFDRIVER structure, KMDF Data Model
Wdfkd.dll extension, Structure and Operation of a KMDF Driver
WDFQUEUE processing, KMDF I/O Model
WDFREQUEST objects, KMDF I/O Model
WDF_OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES structure, KMDF Data ModelKMDF I/O Model, KMDF I/O Model
WDI (Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure), Process Reflection
WDK (Windows Driver Kit), File System Driver Architecture, The Blue Screen, Stack Trashes
WDM (Windows Driver Model), I/O System Components, WDM Drivers, WDM Drivers, Structure and Operation of a KMDF Driver, KMDF I/O Model, User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
wear-leveling, NAND-Type Flash Memory, File Deletion and the Trim Command
webcams, User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
weighting (affinity history), Thresholds and Policy Settings
WER (Windows Error Reporting), Windows Error Reporting, Online Crash Analysis
WerFault.exe, Windows Error Reporting, Online Crash Analysis
WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR stop code, Causes of Windows Crashes
WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs), Driver Verifier, Driver Installation
wild-pointer bugs, Code Overwrite and System Code Write Protection
WIM (Windows Installation Media), The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
Win32 GUI driver, Types of Heaps
Win32k.sys (windowing system driver), x86 System Address Space Layout, Kernel Stacks, Driver Verifier
Driver Verifier and, Driver Verifier
graphic system calls, Kernel Stacks
session space, x86 System Address Space Layout
Win32_EncryptableVolume interface, BitLocker Management
Win32_Tpm interface, BitLocker Management
WinDbg.exe, Crash Dump Files, Basic Crash Dump Analysis, Basic Crash Dump Analysis, When There Is No Crash Dump
basic crash analysis, Basic Crash Dump Analysis
connecting to host computer, When There Is No Crash Dump
extracting minidumps, Crash Dump Files
loading symbols, Basic Crash Dump Analysis
Windiff utility, Post–Splash Screen Crash or Hang
Windows, The I/O Manager, Security, Security, Smss, Csrss, and Wininit, Post–Splash Screen Crash or HangPost–Splash Screen Crash or Hang, Post–Splash Screen Crash or Hang
I/O manager, The I/O Manager
native API, Smss, Csrss, and Wininit
object model, Security
security, Security
splash screen hangs or crashes, Post–Splash Screen Crash or HangPost–Splash Screen Crash or Hang, Post–Splash Screen Crash or Hang
Windows 7, BitLocker To Go, Volumes, Causes of Windows Crashes, Causes of Windows Crashes, Causes of Windows Crashes
Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit, No Execute Page Protection
Windows Backup and Restore, System File Corruption
Windows Cryptography Next Generation (CNG), Encrypting File System Security
Windows Defender, I/O Priorities
Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure (WDI), Process Reflection
Windows directory, Encryption
Windows Driver Foundation (WDF), Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF)KMDF I/O Model, Structure and Operation of a KMDF Driver, KMDF Data Model, KMDF Data Model, KMDF Data Model, KMDF Data Model, KMDF I/O Model, KMDF I/O Model, KMDF I/O Model
Windows Driver Kit (WDK), Structure of a Driver, File System Driver Architecture, The Blue Screen, Stack Trashes
Windows Driver Model (WDM), I/O System Components, WDM Drivers, WDM Drivers, Structure and Operation of a KMDF Driver, KMDF Data Model, User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
Windows Embedded CE, exFAT
Windows Enterprise, Virtual Hard Disk Support, BitLocker To Go, Physical Memory Limits, Windows Client Memory Limits
Windows Error Reporting (WER), Fault Tolerant Heap, Troubleshooting Crashes, Troubleshooting Crashes, Windows Error Reporting, Windows Error Reporting, Online Crash Analysis
Windows file systems, CDFS, UDF, exFATNTFS, exFAT, NTFS
CDFS, CDFS
exFAT, exFATNTFS, exFAT, NTFS
UDF, UDF
Windows Home Basic, Physical Memory Limits
Windows Home Premium, Physical Memory Limits
Windows Installation Media (WIM), The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
Windows logo animation, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service, Power Availability Requests
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool, Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
Windows Modules Installer service, Boot Sector Corruption
Windows NT, Disk Device Objects
Windows PE, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
Windows Portable Device (WPD), User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
Windows Professional, Physical Memory Limits, Windows Client Memory Limits
Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)Post–Splash Screen Crash or Hang, Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), Solving Common Boot Problems, Boot Sector Corruption, System File Corruption, System Hive Corruption, Post–Splash Screen Crash or Hang, Shutdown
Windows Resource Exhaustion Detection and Resolution (RADAR), Process Reflection, Process Reflection
Windows Resource Protection (WRP), System File CorruptionSystem File Corruption, System File Corruption, System File Corruption
Windows Server, Multipath I/O (MPIO) Drivers, Multipath I/O (MPIO) Drivers, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting, BitLocker To Go, BitLocker To Go, Fault Tolerant Heap, Physical Memory Limits, Physical Memory Limits, Physical Memory Limits, Physical Memory Limits, Physical Memory Limits, Physical Memory Limits, NTFS On-Disk Structure, Volumes
2008 Datacenter Edition, Volume Mounting, Physical Memory Limits
2008 R2, Multipath I/O (MPIO) Drivers, BitLocker To Go, Volumes
BitLocker To Go, BitLocker To Go
Enterprise Edition, Volume Mounting, Physical Memory Limits
for Itanium, Physical Memory Limits
Foundation, Physical Memory Limits
FTH, Fault Tolerant Heap
HPC Edition, Physical Memory Limits
MPIO support, Multipath I/O (MPIO) Drivers
NTFS v. 3.1, NTFS On-Disk Structure
Standard Edition, Physical Memory Limits
Windows Setup, BIOS Preboot, Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), System File Corruption
Windows Sockets 2 (Winsock2), Using Completion Ports
Windows software trace preprocessor (WPP), Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
Windows Starter Edition, Physical Memory Limits, Windows Client Memory Limits
Windows subsystems, Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
Windows Task Scheduler, I/O Prioritization
Windows Ultimate, Virtual Hard Disk Support, BitLocker To Go, Physical Memory Limits
Windows Update, Driver Installation, Driver Installation, System File Corruption, Verbose Analysis
Windows Web Server, Physical Memory Limits
Wininit.exe (Windows initialization process), BIOS Preboot, Smss, Csrss, and Wininit
Winload.efi, The UEFI Boot Process
Winload.exe, Winload, LDM and GPT or MBR-Style Partitioning, Mirrored Volumes, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, The BIOS Boot Sector and BootmgrThe BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and BootmgrThe UEFI Boot Process, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The UEFI Boot Process
BCD options, The BIOS Boot Sector and BootmgrThe BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
boot volume loading, The BIOS Boot Sector and BootmgrThe UEFI Boot Process, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The UEFI Boot Process
device and configuration information, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
LDM invisible, LDM and GPT or MBR-Style Partitioning
multipartition volumes and, Mirrored Volumes
storage management, Winload
virtual addresses, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management
Winlogon.exe, Virtual Address Space Layouts
winpe element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment), Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
Winresume.exe, BIOS Preboot, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
Winsock 2 (Windows Sockets 2), The IoCompletion Object
Winver utility, 32-Bit Client Effective Memory Limits
WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), I/O System Components, WDM DriversLayered Drivers, Layered Drivers, Driver Verifier, KMDF Data Model, KMDF I/O Model, Full-Volume Encryption Driver
BitLocker interface, Full-Volume Encryption Driver
IRP handling, KMDF I/O Model
IRP stress tests, Driver Verifier
KMDF objects, KMDF Data Model
WDM drivers, WDM DriversLayered Drivers, Layered Drivers
WDM WMI, I/O System Components
WMI providers, KMDF Data Model, BitLocker Drive Encryption, Crash Dump Files
Wmic.exe, Crash Dump Files
Wmpntwk.exe, Power Availability Requests
WM_QUERYENDSESSION message, Shutdown, Shutdown
work items (KMDF objects), KMDF Data Model
work requests (cache manager), System Threads
worker threads, Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems, Shutdown
working set manager, Memory Manager Components, Modified Page Writer, Working Set Management, Balance Set Manager and Swapper
working sets, Memory Manager Components, Internal Synchronization, Internal Synchronization, Reserving and Committing Pages, Hardware vs. Software Write Bits in Page Table Entries, Physical Address Extension (PAE), Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit, Page Frame Number Database, Page List Dynamics, Modified Page Writer, Modified Page Writer, PFN Data Structures, PFN Data Structures, Working Sets, Working Sets, Working Sets, Demand Paging, Logical Prefetcher, Logical Prefetcher, Logical Prefetcher, Placement Policy, Placement Policy, Working Set Management, Working Set Management, Working Set Management, Working Set Management, Working Set Management, Working Set Management, Working Set Management, Working Set ManagementBalance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and SwapperSystem Working Sets, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, System Working Sets, System Working SetsMemory Notification Events, System Working Sets, System Working Sets, System Working Sets, System Working Sets, Memory Notification Events, Memory Notification Events, Tracing and Logging, Cache SizeCache Working Set Size, Cache Working Set Size, Cache Working Set Size
active pages in, Page Frame Number Database
aging, Tracing and Logging
balance set manager/swapper, Balance Set Manager and SwapperSystem Working Sets, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, System Working Sets
commit charge, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit
hash trees, PFN Data Structures
index field, PFN Data Structures
limits, Working Set Management
locks, Internal Synchronization
logical prefetcher, Logical Prefetcher
management, Working Set Management
memory manager, Internal Synchronization, Demand Paging, Logical Prefetcher, Logical Prefetcher, Placement Policy, Placement Policy, Working Set Management, Working Set Management, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Memory Notification Events
moving pages out of, Reserving and Committing Pages
page writer, Modified Page Writer
paged pool working set, System Working Sets
pages trimmed from, Page List Dynamics
physical memory, Physical Address Extension (PAE)
session working sets, Working Sets
size, Cache SizeCache Working Set Size, Cache Working Set Size, Cache Working Set Size
software and hardware Write bits, Hardware vs. Software Write Bits in Page Table Entries
system cache working sets, System Working Sets
system PTEs working sets, System Working SetsMemory Notification Events, System Working Sets, Memory Notification Events
system working sets, Working Sets, System Working Sets
trimming, Working Set Management
types, Working Sets
viewing, Working Set Management
viewing set lists, Working Set ManagementBalance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper
working set manager, Memory Manager Components, Modified Page Writer, Working Set Management, Balance Set Manager and Swapper
WorkingSetSize variable, Pool Sizes
Wow64 environment, 64-Bit Address Space Layouts, User Stacks
writable pages, Shared Memory and Mapped Files, Hardware vs. Software Write Bits in Page Table Entries
Write bit (PTEs), Page Tables and Page Table Entries
write in progress PFN flag, PFN Data Structures
write operations, IRP Buffer Management, KMDF I/O Model, Mirrored VolumesMirrored Volumes, Mirrored Volumes, Large and Small Pages, Fast I/O, Fast I/O, Write Throttling, Write Throttling, Locking, Crash Dump Analysis, When There Is No Crash Dump
buffered I/O, IRP Buffer Management
crashes, Crash Dump Analysis, When There Is No Crash Dump
fast I/O, Fast I/O, Fast I/O
KMDF, KMDF I/O Model
large page bugs, Large and Small Pages
mirrored volumes, Mirrored VolumesMirrored Volumes, Mirrored Volumes
oplocks, Locking
write throttling, Write Throttling, Write Throttling
write protection, Code Overwrite and System Code Write Protection
write throttling, Write ThrottlingWrite Throttling, Write Throttling, Write Throttling
Write through bit (PTEs), Page Tables and Page Table Entries
write-behind operations, Write-Back Caching and Lazy WritingWrite-Back Caching and Lazy Writing, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing, Disabling Lazy Writing for a File, Write Throttling, Write Throttling
disabling lazy writing, Disabling Lazy Writing for a File
lazy writer, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing
write throttling, Write Throttling, Write Throttling
write-back caching, Write-Back Caching and Lazy WritingWrite-Back Caching and Lazy Writing, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing
write-combined memory access, Page Tables and Page Table Entries
write-through operations, Fast I/O, Forcing the Cache to Write Through to Disk, Design
WriteEncryptedFileRaw function, Backing Up Encrypted Files
WriteFile function, Synchronous and Asynchronous I/O, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing, Explicit File I/O, Transactional APIs
WriteFileEx function, Completing an I/O Request
WriteFileGather function, Scatter/Gather I/O
WriteProcessMemory function, Reserving and Committing Pages
WRP (Windows Resource Protection), System File Corruption
WUDFHost.exe, User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
WUDFPlatform.dll, User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
WUDFx.dll, User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)