CIS 225 - Windows

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CIS 225

Windows 10 In-Depth

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Windows History

Originally a graphical shell for MS-DOS
Written in C, C++ and Assembly
Windows 95 was a huge success
Windows NT became Windows 2000, XP
Windows 10 is latest, runs on everything

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Major Windows Components

Start Menu
Control Panel
File System Layout
Registry

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Windows NT Startup

BIOS looks in the first sector for a bootloader (NTLDR)
NTLDR checks for hiberfil.sys. If so, resumes from hibernation
NTLDR check for boot.ini, displays boot menu to the user
NTLDR reads uses ntdetect.com to scan for hardware & collect info
The kernel is loaded, given hardware info, and assumes control

Windows 10 Startup

Windows Boot Manager is started via EFI
It reads the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) from disk
BCD is stored on a special EFI partition in the same file format as the registry
Using that, it loads winload.exe to load the kernel and device drivers
The kernel assumes control

Windows 10 Tasks

Set Computer Name
Manage Installed Programs
User Accounts
VMWare Tools
Internet Access
Windows Updates
Boot Configuration

Reading

See Class Website:

http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~russfeld/cis225fall2016/

Assignments

Lab 2 - Virtualization, OS Install & Config
Due 9/12 11:30 AM Before Lecture!!