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>you should spend some hours reading Windows Internals book series

I'd love to read the source code myself to see how it works instead




Google "davec apcobj.c"; that'll point you in the direction of some of Dave's brilliant work that dates back to 1989.

(Three versions of NT have been leaked; NT 4.0, Windows 2000, an the Windows Research Kit (which is Win2k3) -- they are all trivial to find online (first page of Google results).)


https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/

Not exactly "you can get it if you want it", but not "you can't even get it over our dead body", either.


You can check out ReactOS which works like Windows but is open source.




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