Reflections of my thoughts….

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In one of the new advertisement by Microsoft featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, Bill telling a technical bedtime story from a Thick Book. Jeff Atwood noticed and smartly blogged that he’s reading chapter 18 – Table Driven Methods of Code Complete 2. Now the author Steve McConnell confirmed that Bill reading section 18.2 – Table . . . → Read More: Bill's Bedtime story was 18.2 of Code Complete 2

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In this post, I’m talking about some internals of Windows Shutdown in the context of applications.

When the user or an application initiates shutdown request through ExitWindowsEx function, the Csrss.exe will be initiating the shutdown operation by sending a window message to the hidden window owned by Winlogon process. The subsystem process Csrss.exe contains handles, Console . . . → Read More: Describing Windows XP and Vista Shutdown in Application context