Windows components

ntdetect.com is a component of Microsoft Windows NT-based operating systems that operate on the x86 architecture. It is used during the Windows NT startup process, and is responsible for detecting basic hardware that will be required to start the operating system.

list of main shared-libraries of Microsoft Windows

concept in Microsoft Windows

crash reporting technology

image and video capture software

Windows system application

command

Microsoft Windows remote access feature

feature of multi-user operating systems

Microsoft Windows service that allows a remote server to act as a custom installation disk

component of Windows Vista and later operating systems

system monitoring program introduced in Windows NT 3.1 that keeps track of various activities such as CPU or memory usage

Software

Microsoft server software for information rights management

The Prefetcher is a component of Microsoft Windows which was introduced in Windows XP. It is a component of the Session Manager Subsystem that can speed up the Windows boot process and shorten the amount of time it takes to start up programs. It accomplishes this by caching files that are needed by an application to RAM as the application is launched, thus consolidating disk reads and reducing disk seeks. This feature was covered by US patent 6,633,968.

a utility in Windows Vista and later, displays information about the use of hardware (CPU, memory, disk, and network) and software (file handles and modules) resources in real time.

WinUSB is a generic USB driver provided by Microsoft for their operating systems starting with Windows Vista but which is also available for Windows XP. It is aimed at simple devices that are accessed by only one application at a time (for example instruments like weather stations, devices that only need a diagnostic connection or for firmware upgrades). It enables the application to directly access the device through a simple software library. The library provides access to the pipes of the device. WinUSB exposes a client API that enables developers to work with USB devices from user-mode. St

component of Microsoft Windows

feature of Microsoft Windows 11

special folder in Microsoft Windows, where users store their personal non-shared documents

component of the Microsoft Windows operating system that provides core functionality for building simple user interfaces

hoax aimed at Microsoft Windows users

conflation of two applications developed by Microsoft

Feature of Microsoft Windows

codec framework in Windows Vista

An IFilter is a plugin that allows Microsoft's search engines to index various file formats (as documents, email attachments, database records, audio metadata etc.) so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate IFilter, contents of a file cannot be parsed and indexed by the search engine.

web mapping client software