the executive, which is itself made up of many modules that do specific tasks; the kernel, which provides low-level services used by the Executive; the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL); and kernel drivers.

Executive

The Windows Executive services make up the low-level kernel-mode portion, and are contained in the file ntoskrnl.exe. It deals with I/O, object management, security and process management. These are divided into

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