This book gives programmers and system developers an up-close look at the most important aspects of Windows 95. Pietrek's objective is to give programmers an in-depth understanding of the Windows 95 operating system and its internals. Readers will learn about the overall architecture of Win 95, portable executable files, processes, Kernel tricks, and much more.
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A must have. I keep coming back to the excellant reference
Jun 23 1999
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There are very few books that I have gotten this much wealth of information out of. Matt spent a lot of time researching it, reverse engineering windows 95 to see how it works. I would gladly pay 10 times the sales price. I found the in depth coverage of the PE (win95 EXEs) file format much better than anything microsoft has to offer. Also, many people will find the section on how to "inject" DLLs into another process space very useful for all sorts things. The coverage of how exceptions are handled is very good. All of the information in the book is still valid today even though it came out in 95. Anyone writing a debugger, compiler, profiler, or system tool will find this book useful. Let's hope Matt writes another book!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Not only explains, but teaches
Jun 26 1998
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This is one my most valued books, as it really explains how Windows 95 operates. Instead of quoting documentation, which is often lacking or dead wrong, Pietrek holds your hand down to the assembly layer, and derives what's really going on. His discussions on the PE format is unparalleled. Also, it contains a detailed chapter on "spelunking on your own", where he shares some debugging/hacking tricks of deriving such information. I stronly recommend you get this book while it's available!
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Best book of my life!
Feb 1 1999
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Simply great! Covers all the secrets of Windows in a superb manner. Reading it was like reading some very intereting novel that I wanted to finish right when I started with the first page. If possible, I would give it infinite stars
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