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Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced 70-270: MCSE Guide to Microsoft Windows XP Professional Second Edition, EnhancedChapter 11: Windows XP Professional Application Support Objectives Understand the Windows XP Professional system architecture Deploy Win32 applications Fine-tune the application environment for DOS and the virtual DOS machine Fine-tune the application environment for Win16 Work with Windows application management facilities Windows XP Professional System Architecture Components: Environment subsystem Executive Services Subsystem: Operating environment Emulates another operating system Kernel mode components Permitted to access system objects and resources directly Kernel Mode vs. User Mode Main difference: Memory usage User mode: Each process perceives entire 4 GB of virtual memory as its exclusive property Upper 2 GB reserved for operating system use Address space entirely virtual Processes may share memory areas with other processes Kernel Mode Versus User Mode (continued) User mode: One user mode process cannot crash another Processes cannot access hardware or communicate with other processes directly Kernel mode: May access all hardware and memory in computer All operations share the same memory space One kernel mode function can corrupt another’s data Can cause the operating system to crash Processes and Threads Process: Defines operating environment in which application or any major operating system component runs Includes: Own private memory space Set of security descriptors Priority level for execution Processor-affinity data List of threads Processes and Threads (continued) Thread: Basic executable unit in Windows XP Every process includes at least one thread Consists of: Placeholder information associated with single use of any program that can handle multiple concurrent users or activities Associated with processes Do not exist independently Processes and Threads (continued) Applications must be explicitly designed