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- VACB arrays, Systemwide Cache Data Structures
- VACB index arrays, Per-File Cache Data Structures, Per-File Cache Data Structures, Per-File Cache Data Structures
- VACBs (virtual address control blocks), Cache Virtual Memory Management–Cache Working Set Size, Cache Working Set Size, Cache Working Set Size, Cache Physical Size, Cache Data Structures, Systemwide Cache Data Structures
- cache data structures, Cache Data Structures
- cache manager, Cache Virtual Memory Management–Cache Working Set Size, Cache Working Set Size, Cache Working Set Size
- cache slots, Cache Physical Size
- structure, Systemwide Cache Data Structures
- VAD trees, Invalid PTEs
- VADs (virtual address descriptors), Reserving and Committing Pages, Allocation Granularity, Page Directories, Virtual Address Descriptors, Virtual Address Descriptors, Virtual Address Descriptors–Process VADs, Process VADs, Process VADs, Process VADs, Rotate VADs, Rotate VADs, Explicit File I/O
- granular allocation, Allocation Granularity
- memory manager, Virtual Address Descriptors, Virtual Address Descriptors, Rotate VADs
- page faults, Explicit File I/O
- page table creation, Page Directories
- process, Virtual Address Descriptors–Process VADs, Process VADs, Process VADs
- process address space, Reserving and Committing Pages
- rotate, Rotate VADs
- viewing, Process VADs
- Valid (Active) PFN state, Page Frame Number Database, Page Frame Number Database
- Valid bit (PTEs), Page Tables and Page Table Entries
- valid pages, Prototype PTEs, PFN Data Structures
- valid PTE bits, Physical Address Extension (PAE)
- valid PTE fields, Page Tables and Page Table Entries–Page Tables and Page Table Entries, Page Tables and Page Table Entries, Page Tables and Page Table Entries
- valid PTEs, PFN Data Structures
- valid shared pages, Prototype PTEs
- validation (heap debugging), Heap Debugging Features
- VBO (virtual byte offset), Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing
- VCNs (virtual cluster numbers), Master File Table, Resident and Nonresident Attributes, Compressing Nonsparse Data
- compressed files, Compressing Nonsparse Data
- VCN-to-LCN mapping, Master File Table, Resident and Nonresident Attributes
- VDM (Virtual DOS Machine), Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
- Vdrvroot driver, Attaching VHDs
- VDS (Virtual Disk Service), Dynamic Disks, Virtual Disk Service, Virtual Disk Service, Virtual Disk Service
- VDS Basic Provider, Virtual Disk Service
- VDS Dynamic Provider, Virtual Disk Service
- vendor IDs (VIDs), Device Stack Driver Loading
- verbose analysis, Verbose Analysis, Verbose Analysis, Buffer Overruns, Memory Corruption, and Special Pool, Code Overwrite and System Code Write Protection, Stack Trashes
- verification, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier, Buffer Overruns, Memory Corruption, and Special Pool–Buffer Overruns, Memory Corruption, and Special Pool, Buffer Overruns, Memory Corruption, and Special Pool
- Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier, Driver Verifier
- enabling special pool, Buffer Overruns, Memory Corruption, and Special Pool–Buffer Overruns, Memory Corruption, and Special Pool, Buffer Overruns, Memory Corruption, and Special Pool
- Verify Image Signatures option, Images That Start Automatically
- version numbers, displaying, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- versioning information, Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
- Very Low I/O priority, I/O Priorities, I/O Priority Boosts and Bumps, I/O Priority Boosts and Bumps
- VESA display modes, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- Vf* functions, Driver Verifier
- VfLoadDriver function, Driver Verifier
- VGA display drivers, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr, Driver Loading in Safe Mode
- VGA display, crashes and, The Blue Screen
- vga element, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- VGA font files, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- vgaoem.fon file, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- Vhdmp miniport driver, Attaching VHDs
- VHDs (virtual hard disks), Storage Management, Virtual Hard Disk Support, Virtual Hard Disk Support
- video adapters, Types of Device Drivers, Windows Client Memory Limits, 32-Bit Client Effective Memory Limits, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- video drivers, Rotate VADs, Smss, Csrss, and Wininit
- video port drivers, Layered Drivers
- VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE stop code, Causes of Windows Crashes
- view indexes, Indexing
- views (virtual address space), Reserving and Committing Pages, Shared Memory and Mapped Files, Shared Memory and Mapped Files, Copy-on-Write–Copy-on-Write, Copy-on-Write, Copy-on-Write, Prototype PTEs, Cache Virtual Memory Management, Systemwide Cache Data Structures, Per-File Cache Data Structures
- cache virtual memory management, Cache Virtual Memory Management
- copy-on-write, Copy-on-Write–Copy-on-Write, Copy-on-Write, Copy-on-Write
- mapped into cache, Per-File Cache Data Structures
- preallocated for VACBs, Systemwide Cache Data Structures
- prototype PTEs, Prototype PTEs
- section objects, Shared Memory and Mapped Files, Shared Memory and Mapped Files
- shared page mapping, Reserving and Committing Pages
- virtual address space, Completing an I/O Request, Memory Management, Introduction to the Memory Manager, Introduction to the Memory Manager, Services Provided by the Memory Manager, Large and Small Pages, Large and Small Pages, Large and Small Pages–Reserving and Committing Pages, Reserving and Committing Pages, Reserving and Committing Pages, Reserving and Committing Pages, Virtual Address Descriptors, Page List Dynamics, Page List Dynamics, The Memory Manager
- fast allocation, Virtual Address Descriptors
- I/O completion, Completing an I/O Request
- mapping files into, The Memory Manager
- mapping into physical memory, Introduction to the Memory Manager
- memory manager, Memory Management
- pages, Services Provided by the Memory Manager, Large and Small Pages, Large and Small Pages
- reserving/committing pages, Large and Small Pages–Reserving and Committing Pages, Reserving and Committing Pages, Reserving and Committing Pages, Reserving and Committing Pages
- viewing allocations, Page List Dynamics, Page List Dynamics
- vs. physical memory, Introduction to the Memory Manager
- virtual address space layouts, x86 System Address Space Layout, x86 Session Space, System Page Table Entries, System Page Table Entries, Windows x64 16-TB Limitation–Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management–System Virtual Address Space Quotas, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, System Virtual Address Space Quotas, System Virtual Address Space Quotas, System Virtual Address Space Quotas, User Address Space Layout, Image Randomization
- dynamic management, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management–System Virtual Address Space Quotas, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, System Virtual Address Space Quotas, System Virtual Address Space Quotas
- memory manager, x86 Session Space, System Page Table Entries, System Virtual Address Space Quotas, User Address Space Layout, Image Randomization
- session space, x86 System Address Space Layout
- system PTEs, System Page Table Entries
- x64 limitations, Windows x64 16-TB Limitation–Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management
- virtual addresses, Windows x64 16-TB Limitation, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management, Working Set Management, Working Set Management, Tracing and Logging, File System Interfaces
- virtual allocator, Dynamic System Virtual Address Space Management
- virtual block caching, Key Features of the Cache Manager, Virtual Block Caching
- virtual bus drivers, Device Enumeration
- virtual byte offset (VBO), Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing
- virtual bytes, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit
- virtual clients, Log Types
- virtual devices, User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF)
- Virtual Disk Service (VDS), Dynamic Disks, Virtual Disk Service, Virtual Disk Service, Virtual Hard Disk Support
- Virtual DOS Machine (VDM), Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
- virtual FCBs, Log Types
- virtual files, Typical I/O Processing
- virtual hard disks (VHDs), Storage Management, Virtual Hard Disk Support, Virtual Hard Disk Support
- virtual log LSNs, Owner Pages
- virtual LSNs, Translating Virtual LSNs to Physical LSNs–Translating Virtual LSNs to Physical LSNs, Translating Virtual LSNs to Physical LSNs, Translating Virtual LSNs to Physical LSNs
- Virtual Machine Extensions (VME), Initializing the Kernel and Executive Subsystems
- virtual machines (VMs), Virtual Hard Disk Support, When There Is No Crash Dump, When There Is No Crash Dump
- virtual memory, Mapped File I/O and File Caching, Introduction to the Memory Manager, Services Provided by the Memory Manager, Reserving and Committing Pages, Physical Memory Limits–32-Bit Client Effective Memory Limits, Windows Client Memory Limits, 32-Bit Client Effective Memory Limits, Cache Virtual Memory Management, Cache Working Set Size, Fast I/O, Fast I/O
- cache manager, Cache Virtual Memory Management, Cache Working Set Size
- Control Panel applet, Introduction to the Memory Manager
- fast I/O, Fast I/O, Fast I/O
- functions, Services Provided by the Memory Manager
- limits, Physical Memory Limits–32-Bit Client Effective Memory Limits, Windows Client Memory Limits, 32-Bit Client Effective Memory Limits
- mapped file I/O, Mapped File I/O and File Caching
- releasing or decommitting pages, Reserving and Committing Pages
- virtual NVRAM stores, Unified Caching
- virtual page numbers, x86 Virtual Address Translation, x86 Virtual Address Translation
- virtual pages, Memory Manager Components, Placement Policy, Working Set Management
- Virtual PC, Virtual Hard Disk Support
- virtual size, Pool Sizes
- paged pool, Pool Sizes
- virtual storage (SANs), Storage Management, Disk Class, Port, and Miniport Drivers
- virtual TLB entries, The BIOS Boot Sector and Bootmgr
- virtual-address-to-working-set pairs, Tracing and Logging
- virtual-to-physical memory translation, Protecting Memory
- VirtualAlloc functions, Large and Small Pages, Reserving and Committing Pages, Address Windowing Extensions, Types of Heaps, x86 Address Space Layouts, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit–Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit, Virtual Address Descriptors
- backing stores, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit
- committed storage, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit–Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit, Commit Charge and the System Commit Limit
- growth in allocations, x86 Address Space Layouts
- large memory regions, Types of Heaps, Virtual Address Descriptors
- large pages, Large and Small Pages
- mapping views, Address Windowing Extensions
- private pages, Reserving and Committing Pages
- VirtualFree functions, Reserving and Committing Pages
- VirtualLock function, Locking Memory
- VirtualProtect functions, Protecting Memory–Protecting Memory, Protecting Memory
- VirtualQuery functions, Protecting Memory–Protecting Memory, Protecting Memory
- Virtualxxx functions, Services Provided by the Memory Manager
- virus scanning, I/O Prioritization, File System Filter Drivers
- VMMap utility, Examining Memory Usage, User Address Space Layout, User Address Space Layout, Page List Dynamics, Page List Dynamics, Page List Dynamics
- vnodes, Opening Devices
- volatile data, Write-Back Caching and Lazy Writing
- volatile physical NVRAM cache, Unified Caching
- VolMgr driver, Basic Disk Volume Manager, Dynamic Disk Volume Manager, Multipartition Volume Management
- VolMgr-Internal GUID, The Mount Manager
- VolMgrX driver, Dynamic Disk Volume Manager, Multipartition Volume Management
- Volsnap.sys driver, Shadow Copy Provider–Uses in Windows, Shadow Copy Provider, Shadow Copy Provider, Uses in Windows
- volume book records (VBRs), Volume Mounting, Master File Table, BIOS Preboot, BIOS Preboot
- volume device objects, Basic Disk Volume Manager, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting
- volume entries (LDM), The LDM Database–The LDM Database, The LDM Database, The LDM Database
- volume file (, NTFS On-Disk Structure, Master File Table, Master File Table
- volume label file (, Dynamic Partitioning, NTFS Bad-Cluster Recovery
- volume manager (VolMgr), Layered Drivers, I/O Requests to Layered Drivers–I/O Requests to Layered Drivers, I/O Requests to Layered Drivers, I/O Requests to Layered Drivers, Disk Device Objects, Basic Disk Volume Manager, Dynamic Disk Volume Manager, Multipartition Volume Management, NTFS Bad-Cluster Recovery
- associated IRPs, I/O Requests to Layered Drivers–I/O Requests to Layered Drivers, I/O Requests to Layered Drivers, I/O Requests to Layered Drivers
- basic disks, Basic Disk Volume Manager
- disk offset management, Multipartition Volume Management
- dynamic disks, Dynamic Disk Volume Manager
- layering drivers, Layered Drivers
- recovery, NTFS Bad-Cluster Recovery
- symbolic links, Disk Device Objects
- volume master keys (VMKs), Encryption Keys, Encryption Keys, BitLocker Boot Process, BitLocker Boot Process, BitLocker Boot Process
- volume namespace mechanism, The Volume Namespace–Volume Mounting, The Mount Manager, Mount Points, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting
- volume namespaces, The Volume Namespace–Volume Mounting, The Mount Manager, Mount Points, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting
- volume objects, Volume I/O Operations, Explicit File I/O
- volume quotas, Per-User Volume Quotas, Per-User Volume Quotas
- volume sets (spanned volumes), Spanned Volumes
- Volume Shadow Copy Driver, Shadow Copy Provider–Uses in Windows, Shadow Copy Provider, Shadow Copy Provider, Uses in Windows
- volume-recognition process, Volume Mounting
- volumes, Storage Terminology, Storage Terminology, Volume Management, GUID Partition Table Partitioning, GUID Partition Table Partitioning, Basic Disk Volume Manager, Dynamic Disks–Multipartition Volume Management, The LDM Database, LDM and GPT or MBR-Style Partitioning, LDM and GPT or MBR-Style Partitioning, Multipartition Volume Management–RAID-5 Volumes, Multipartition Volume Management, Mirrored Volumes, RAID-5 Volumes, Volume I/O Operations, Virtual Disk Service–Virtual Hard Disk Support, Virtual Disk Service, Virtual Disk Service, Virtual Hard Disk Support, Nested File Systems, Nested File Systems, BitLocker Drive Encryption, BitLocker Drive Encryption, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), BitLocker Boot Process, BitLocker Key Recovery, Full-Volume Encryption Driver, BitLocker To Go, Shadow Copies, FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32–FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32, FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32, FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32, General Indexing Facility, Defragmentation, NTFS On-Disk Structure, File Records, Data Compression and Sparse Files, Data Compression and Sparse Files, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Design, NTFS Bad-Cluster Recovery, Self-Healing
- basic disk partitions, GUID Partition Table Partitioning
- basic disks, Volume Management, GUID Partition Table Partitioning, Basic Disk Volume Manager
- clone and original volumes, Shadow Copies
- compression, Data Compression and Sparse Files, Data Compression and Sparse Files, Compressing Nonsparse Data, Compressing Nonsparse Data
- defragmentation, Defragmentation
- dependent, Nested File Systems
- dynamic, Dynamic Disks–Multipartition Volume Management, The LDM Database, LDM and GPT or MBR-Style Partitioning, LDM and GPT or MBR-Style Partitioning, Multipartition Volume Management
- encryption, BitLocker Drive Encryption, BitLocker Drive Encryption, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), BitLocker Boot Process, Full-Volume Encryption Driver, BitLocker To Go
- FAT cluster sizes, FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32–FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32, FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32, FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32
- foreign, BitLocker Key Recovery
- I/O operations, Volume I/O Operations
- indexing, General Indexing Facility
- multipartition, Storage Terminology, Multipartition Volume Management–RAID-5 Volumes, Mirrored Volumes, RAID-5 Volumes
- NTFS on-disk structure, NTFS On-Disk Structure
- recovery, Design
- redundant, NTFS Bad-Cluster Recovery
- self-healing, Self-Healing
- simple, Storage Terminology
- snapshots, Nested File Systems
- VDS subsystem, Virtual Disk Service–Virtual Hard Disk Support, Virtual Disk Service, Virtual Disk Service, Virtual Hard Disk Support
- version and labels, File Records
- VOLUME_NAME attribute, File Records
- VPBs (volume parameter blocks), Volume Mounting, Volume Mounting, Local FSDs, Explicit File I/O
- device objects, Explicit File I/O
- file system drivers, Volume Mounting
- I/O manager, Local FSDs
- mount operations, Volume Mounting
- VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service), VSS Architecture, VSS Architecture, VSS Architecture, VSS Operation, VSS Operation, VSS Operation, VSS Operation–Uses in Windows, VSS Operation, Shadow Copy Provider, Shadow Copy Provider, Shadow Copy Provider–Conclusion, Shadow Copy Provider, Shadow Copy Provider, Uses in Windows, Uses in Windows, Backup, Previous Versions and System Restore, Previous Versions and System Restore, Previous Versions and System Restore, Conclusion, Dynamic Partitioning–NTFS File System Driver, Dynamic Partitioning, NTFS File System Driver
- architecture, VSS Architecture, VSS Operation
- operation, VSS Operation–Uses in Windows, Shadow Copy Provider, Shadow Copy Provider, Uses in Windows
- shrinking volumes, Dynamic Partitioning–NTFS File System Driver, Dynamic Partitioning, NTFS File System Driver
- storage management, Shadow Copy Provider, Shadow Copy Provider
- VSS providers, VSS Architecture, VSS Operation, VSS Operation, Uses in Windows
- VSS requestors, VSS Architecture, VSS Operation
- Windows backup/restore, Shadow Copy Provider–Conclusion, Backup, Previous Versions and System Restore, Previous Versions and System Restore, Previous Versions and System Restore, Conclusion
- Vssadmin utility, Previous Versions and System Restore–Conclusion, Conclusion