ntoskrnl.exe
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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, security reference monitor, memory manager, scheduler (Dispatcher), and blue screen of death (the prose and portions of the code).[1]
This article is about a computer file that contains a part of the Windows NT kernel. For the Windows NT kernel itself, see Architecture of Windows NT.
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