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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 Model–KMDF 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 Hang–Post–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 Hang–Post–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, exFAT–NTFS, exFAT, NTFS
- CDFS, CDFS
- exFAT, exFAT–NTFS, 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 Corruption–System 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 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 Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr–The 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 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 Bootmgr
- boot volume loading, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr–The 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 Drivers–Layered 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 Drivers–Layered 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 Management–Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper, Balance Set Manager and Swapper–System 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 Sets–Memory Notification Events, System Working Sets, System Working Sets, System Working Sets, System Working Sets, Memory Notification Events, Memory Notification Events, Tracing and Logging, Cache Size–Cache 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 Swapper–System 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 Size–Cache 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 Sets–Memory 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 Management–Balance 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 Volumes–Mirrored 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 Volumes–Mirrored Volumes, Mirrored Volumes
- oplocks, Locking
- write throttling, Write Throttling, Write Throttling
- write protection, Code Overwrite and System Code Write Protection
- write throttling, Write Throttling–Write Throttling, Write Throttling, Write Throttling
- Write through bit (PTEs), Page Tables and Page Table Entries
- write-behind operations, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing–Write-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 Writing–Write-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)