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Windows Architecture Explained Simply #shorts

BSides Frankfurt0:45160 viewsPublished 2026-01Watch on YouTube ↗
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Explore the core structure of Windows, from user space applications to the kernel. Understand the layers of wrappers and how processes interact, inspired by 'Windows Internals'. #Bsidesfrankfurt #Bsides #Bsidesfra #Juansacco
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These images were taken from the books. So if you are interested, go Windows internals. These are taken from there. Um and the on the left side you will see the structure of uh uh of how the Windows kernel and the and the user space works. uh basically it's like a real simple uh schema but then you have system process services process user process as subsystem and then I'm saying subsystem DLS and you have different layers of wrappers between the user space and the application after you reach the NL DLL uh that is still in user mode and then after that you go into executive and in the executive and in the kernel mode you have the

executive device drivers and kernel