Where to find diagram of Windows 10 internal architecture

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Shplad

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Hi everyone:

I have no understanding or knowlege of programming, I'm a technician. However, in order to improve my Windows 10 troubleshooting skills, I'd like to find a diagram of Windows 10 system architecture. However, I've looked for hours using Google and Bing and found nothing. All I could find was a few of the more specialized subsystem, which don't help.

These were always available for older (Windows 7 and back) previous versions, but I can't find anything for Windows 10. There might be something in the Windows Internals books, but they're very expensive and way above my level of understanding.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
 
I agree. But it's way over my head. I have zero programming knowledge. If you find anything John, please...let me know. I'm sure it would be a very useful and popular troubleshooting aid
 
How do you know it is way over your head until you read it?

It wasn't easy for me at first learning Vista either back in 2007.
 
Shplad said:
I agree. But it's way over my head. I have zero programming knowledge. If you find anything John, please...let me know. I'm sure it would be a very useful and popular troubleshooting aid
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Although it is quite technical and programming knowledge is useful to have to help understand, I don't feel like programming knowledge is an actual requirement to understand it. Most of the technical stuff is being explained, although sometimes not directly it does tell you at what chapter you can read up.

I have a few of the Windows Internals books and 'even' after having a few years of experience with programming I had/have trouble understanding what it says. 'Just re-read it' is the keyword in getting to understand it really, that and some research helps a lot.

The first time I was reading it, after a few pages I had not really a clue what it was trying to explain to me.
 
Thanks everyone. I downloaded a sample chapter, and I'm trying to slog through it. I can't say it's easy reading, but I'll keep trying.

I was also told by a very reliable source that except for UWP being added (starting Windows 8) and Win10 introducing some optional user-mode subsystems like OpenSSH server, Windows 10 system architecture is not much different.
 
Microsoft did a complete overhaul of their architecture starting with Windows Vista, and have only really added optimisations since then. Although, haven't said that, there is probably still a considerable difference between Windows 10 and Windows 7.
 
Thanks everyone. I ended up finding a Windows 8 diagram on the Web and using it. I also started reading Windows Internals Part 1, though a ton of it is over my head.

Thanks
 
It takes some effort to understand it, I've recently read a part of chapter 2 of Windows Internals 7 part 1 and ended up reading it at least 3 times to get a grasp of it.
 
The information is thorough and correct. But the writing quality is awful, as far as I'm concerned. My experience: I used to teach and tutor for years and write user and basic technical documentation.
 
I received my copy of Windows Internals 7th Edition yesterday, and personally found the writing to be quite good?

There doesn't seem to be too much added since the 5th Edition though?
 
I don't think it's really intended to be particularly accessible. I think it's aimed primarily at device driver developers who have a lot of prior programming experience and want to learn the internals of the kernel / systems.
 
niemiro:

Yep, I couldn't agree more. I will read through at least some of it. Slowly. Can't say it's fun.
 

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