Inside the Windows Vista Kernel

If you want to do serious (non-GUI :) ) programming on Vista, I heartily recommend following three-part series on Vista Kernel written by one-and-only Mark Russinovich: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1 (thread priority and scheduling, file-based symbolic links, canceling I/O operations) Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 2 (memory management, startup and shutdown, power management) Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 3 (reliability, recovery, security)