Welcome to the companion CD of my book Undocumented Windows 2000 Secrets - A Programmer's Cookbook, published by Addison-Wesley. On these pages, you will find informations about the contents of this book and the CD.

How this book was born...

Poking around in the binary code of operating systems has always been one of my favorite pastimes. Just a couple of weeks before I had the idea to this book, my article Inside Windows NT System Data had been published in Dr. Dobb's Journal, showing how to retrieve internal system data by means of the undocumented kernel API function NtQuerySystemInformation(). The preparatory research to this article has left me with a huge amount of unpublished material that longed for being printed somewhere, and so I yelled: "Hey, how about a book about Windows 2000 Internals?" Regarding the obvious similarities between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000, plus my pile of interesting undocumented information too valuable to be buried, this seemed to be a great idea, and I am proud that this idea took the physical form of this book. While transforming the stuff I had collected so far into something that was readable by other people, I discovered lots of other interesting things along the way, so this book also features a great deal of brand-new material that I hadn't planned to include beforehand.

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