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Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Win16 Concepts and Applications (continued) Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Win16-on-Win32 Components Wowexec.exe Wow32.dll Mmtask.tsk Ntvdm.exe ntvdm.dll ntio.sys Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Win16-on-Win32 Components (continued) redir.exe Vdmredir.dll Krnl386.exe Gdi.exe User.exe Calls made to 16-bit drivers Transferred (“thunked”) to appropriate 32-bit driver without the application having to call driver directly Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Win16-on-Win32 Components (continued) XP sustains WOW environment until System is restarted Manually terminate the Wowexec.exe task Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Memory Space Multiple threads running in single process can affect the performance of each application Can make tracking applications more difficult If one of application goes astray and causes the VDM to freeze or crash, all applications in that VDM will be affected Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Separate and Shared Memory Separate VDMs advantages: Increase reliability of applications as a whole One errant application won’t take down all the other Win16 applications if it crashes Preemptive multitasking is possible Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Separate and Shared Memory (continued) Disadvantages: Requires 2 MB of space in the paging file and 1 MB of additional working set size Increased time to switch from one application to another To choose: Try both ways and compare performance Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Message Queues Win16 applications running in a single process share message queue If one application becomes unable to accept input Blocks all other Win16 applications in VDM from accepting further input Guide to MCSE 70-270, Second Edition, Enhanced * Threads Win16 threads that run in a VDM do not multitask like threads running in the Win32 subsystem Cooperatively multitas