Glossary

Kernal

The core of the Windows operating system. It provides interactions between hardware and software on Windows. It is always present within the system memory, and is the most crucial part of the operating system. To provide proper access to resources such as processor time, memory space, and external storage such as hard drives, the Windows kernel needs to run at the highest privilege context within the operating system.

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