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  2. Service Control Manager - Wikipedia

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    Each service's registry key contains an optional Group value which governs the order of initialization of a respective service or a device driver, with respect to other service groups. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services , which contains the actual database of services and device drivers and is read into SCM's internal database ...

  3. List of features removed in Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Movie Maker Sample File, which was a short video file consisting of clips of a male child riding a tricycle, playing in a playground, and then running in a field, is no longer generated by Windows Movie Player 2.1 when it is started for the first time, as was the case with Windows Movie Maker 1.1 in the original and Service Pack 1 ...

  4. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory.

  5. Client/Server Runtime Subsystem - Wikipedia

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    The Client/Server Runtime Subsystem, or csrss.exe, is a component of the Windows NT family of operating systems that provides the user mode side of the Win32 subsystem.In modern versions of Windows, it is primarily involved with process and thread management, console window handling, side-by-side assembly loading and the shutdown process.

  6. NTLDR - Wikipedia

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    Though NTLDR can boot DOS and non-NT versions of Windows, boot.ini cannot configure their boot options. For NT-based OSs, the location of the operating system is written as an Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) path. boot.ini is protected from user configuration by having the following file attributes: system, hidden, read-only.

  7. Recovery Console - Wikipedia

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    Filesystem access on the Recovery Console is by default severely limited. An administrator using the Recovery Console has only read-only access to all volumes except for the boot volume, and even on the boot volume only access to the root directory and to the Windows system directory (e.g. \WINNT). This can be changed by changing Security ...

  8. Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP Service Pack 2 was later included in Windows Embedded for Point of Service and Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs. Service Pack 3 The third and final Service Pack, SP3, was released through different channels between April 21 [ 81 ] and June 10, 2008, [ 82 ] about a year after the release of Windows Vista , and about a year before ...

  9. Windows service - Wikipedia

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    In Windows NT operating systems, a Windows service is a computer program that operates in the background. [1] It is similar in concept to a Unix daemon . [ 1 ] A Windows service must conform to the interface rules and protocols of the Service Control Manager , the component responsible for managing Windows services.