Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page 66 2nd paragraph |
The "Inside the Native API" article is no longer available at SysInternals.com. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Nov 03, 2012 | Mar 15, 2013 |
Printed | Page 13 4th paragraph |
2 things: Note from the Author or Editor: |
mgrossman | Oct 05, 2012 | Mar 15, 2013 |
Printed, PDF, ePub, Mobi, , Other Digital Version | Page 418 fig 5-16 |
Shouldn?t the dispatch arrow go *from* ready/standby/deferred *to* 2 (running)? In the above diagram, there appears to be no way to actually reach the running state. Am I missing something? Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Oct 02, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Page 282 Second paragraph |
Book text says: "Data stored in a profile?s key includes the time of the last load of the profile in the ProfileLoadTimeLow value" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Helge Klein | Sep 28, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 | |
Page 78 1st paragraph |
The book text says: "Userinit performs some initialization of the user environment (such as running the login script and Note from the Author or Editor: |
Helge Klein | Sep 28, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 | |
Page 562 1st paragraph after box |
The book text says: "The default value is Userinit.exe, which loads Note from the Author or Editor: |
Helge Klein | Sep 28, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 494 2nd paragraph |
This is illustrated in Figure 6-3 using the Sysinternals Winobj tool, showing the security descriptor for a section object in the user`s session. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Sergei Matiushkin | Aug 21, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 415 Image in the top of the page |
Base Priority: 8 Note from the Author or Editor: |
sergmat | Aug 16, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 411 2nd paragraph |
..., which sets priorities of 4, 8, 13, 14, 6, and 10, respectively. Note from the Author or Editor: |
sergmat | Aug 16, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 471 . |
"Distributed Fair Share Scheduling" is actually called "Dynamic Fair Share Scheduling" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jul 30, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 416 . |
"Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition include an optionally installable component called Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jul 27, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 117 4th paragraph |
"slightly latency/delay" instead of "slight latency/delay" Note from the Author or Editor: |
brantgurga | Jul 09, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 151 5 |
lkd> ?? (( ... ->TypInfo*)0xfffffa9002755b60)->TypeInfo Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jun 22, 2012 | Mar 15, 2013 |
Page 496 4th paragraph 5th line |
4th paragraph 5th line: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Marco S. Zuppone | Jun 03, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 186 Line on Semaphores in Table 3-19 |
A semaphore goes to the signalled state when its count increases by 1 (not when it is dropped by 1). Note from the Author or Editor: |
Christian Vogt | May 03, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 13 Last sentence in second box |
Your promise to find more information on UMS in Chapter 5 is not kept (at least I can't find it in the Contents or Index). Note from the Author or Editor: |
Christian Vogt | May 03, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 217 5th paragraph |
"Both completion lists and message zones can be set with NtAlpcSetInformationPort". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Apr 20, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 214 3rd paragraph |
"A driver can register its own callback and context with NtSetInformationAlpcPort". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Apr 20, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 11 1st paragraph |
The URL http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg462988.aspx was changed by Microsoft to be http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852360 Note from the Author or Editor: |
Dennis Oleksyuk | Apr 18, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 103 Under IrqPolicyOneCloseProcessor |
Same problem as before - copy paste of machjne Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Apr 10, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 103 Under IrqPolicyAllCloseProcessors |
Should say machine, as oppsed to machjne Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Apr 10, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 98 3/4 down the page |
The font for these directions should be changed to the common text, as opposed to the current console-like theme. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Apr 09, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 97 97 first paragraph |
Should be PS/2 keyboard device, as opposed to PS2. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Apr 09, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 96 Figure 3-6 |
CPU IDT reads 0 2 3 ... n (missing 1) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Apr 09, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Printed | Page 115 2nd paragraph |
"Daylight Savings Time" should be "Daylight Saving Time" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Ross J. Micheals | Apr 07, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |
Other Digital Version | Location 786 last paragraph |
Under EXPERIMENT: Viewing Process Details with Process Explorer: "The first time you run it, you will receive a message that symbols are not currently configured." Note from the Author or Editor: |
matthew grossman | Apr 01, 2012 | Oct 05, 2012 |