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  2. Windows legacy audio components - Wikipedia

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    KMixer. KMixer is the Kernel Audio Mixer driver, a part of WDM Audio in Windows 98 to Windows XP which handles the mixing of multiple sound buffers into an output. The tasks performed by KMixer.sys: Mixing multiple PCM audio streams. Format, bit-depth (also known as word-length) and sample-rate conversion.

  3. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista. Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most aspects of the operating system. In addition to the new user interface, security capabilities, and developer technologies, several major components of the core operating system ...

  4. ntoskrnl.exe - Wikipedia

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    ntoskrnl.exe (short for Windows NT operating system kernel executable), also known as the kernel image, contains the kernel and executive layers of the Microsoft Windows NT kernel, and is responsible for hardware abstraction, process handling, and memory management. In addition to the kernel and executive layers, it contains the cache manager ...

  5. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2015 October 18 ...

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    For reference, the laptop in question once hanged and showed a Windows 8 BSOD saying that a "Kernel Data Inpage Error" occurred, then after restarting showed an "operating system not found" error, although it worked fine again after another restart. Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 06:43, 18 October 2015 (UTC) Are all these the same hard drive?

  6. Kernel (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer 's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for preventing and mitigating conflicts between different processes. [1] It is the portion of the operating system code that is always resident in memory [2] and ...

  7. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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    Memory paging. In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage [a] for use in main memory. [citation needed] In this scheme, the operating system retrieves data from secondary storage in same-size blocks called ...

  8. MinWin - Wikipedia

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    MinWin. MinWin is a term used informally by Microsoft to describe the kernel and operating system components that form the basis of releases of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows Vista. The term was first used in 2003 to describe approximately 95% of the common components of the operating system, but has over time come to refer to a ...

  9. Security and safety features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Vista boot loader checks the integrity of the kernel, the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), and the boot-start drivers. Aside from the kernel memory space, Code Integrity verifies binaries loaded into a protected process and system installed dynamic libraries that implement core cryptographic functions.