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Windows XP: An Overview Brett O’Neill CSE 8343 – Group A6 Overview Programs, Processes, Jobs and Threads Registry and Memory File System Architecture and Management Inter-Process Communication Questions? References Processes Threads Windows XP process architecture is the same as Windows 2000 process architecture There are 4 units of work – Processes, Threads, Jobs and Programs. Simple definitions: Program – A static set of instructions Process – A container for a set of threads that execute an instance of a program Job – A group of processes that can be manipulated as a single unit Thread –