List the names,locations,and contents of 5 major system files in Windows XP?

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1. Guest4605
   

   1/ BOOT.INI
   
   2/ NTLDR
   
   3/ NTBOOTDD.SYS
   
   4/NTUSER.DAT
   
   5/ NTDETECT.COM

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   List the names,locations,and contents of 5 major system files in Windows XP?

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   File Name
   
   
   Description
   
   Ntoskrnl.exe
   
   
   Executive and kernel.
   
   Ntkrnlpa.exe
   
   
   Executive and kernel with support for Physical Address Extension (PAE), which allows addressing of more than 4 gigabytes (GB) of physical memory.
   
   Hal.dll
   
   
   Hardware abstraction layer.
   
   Win32k.sys
   
   
   Kernel-mode part of the Win32 subsystem.
   
   Ntdll.dll
   
   
   Internal support functions and system service dispatch stubs to executive functions.
   
   Kernel32.dll
   
   Advapi32.dll
   
   User32.dll
   
   Gdi32.dll
   
   
   Core Win32 subsystem DLLs.
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   Startup Files
   
   The following files are essential to the startup process. All files listed in Table A-2 are located in the boot or root directory (for example, C:\) of your Windows XP Professional installation.
   
   Table A-2 Essential Startup Files
   
   File Name
   
   
   Description
   
   Ntldr
   
   
   Reads the Boot.ini file, presents the boot menu, and loads Ntoskrnl.exe, Bootvid.dll, Hal.dll, and boot-start device drivers.
   
   Boot.ini
   
   
   Contains options for starting the version of Windows that Setup installs and any preexisting Windows installations.
   
   Ntdetect.com
   
   
   After the boot selection is made, Ntldr loads and executes this 16-bit real-mode program to query the computer for basic device and configuration information. This information includes the following:
   
       *
   
         The time and date information stored in the system’s CMOS (nonvolatile memory).
       *
   
         The types of buses (for example, ISA, PCI, EISA, Micro Channel Architecture [MCA]) on the system and identifiers for devices attached to the buses.
       *
   
         The number, size, and type of disk drives on the system.
       *
   
         The types of mouse input devices connected to the system.
       *
   
         The number and type of parallel ports configured on the system.
   
   Pagefile.sys
   
   
   Contains memory data that Windows is unable to fit into physical RAM. During Startup, the virtual memory manager moves data in and out of the paging file to optimize the amount of physical memory available to the operating system and applications.
   
   Ntbootdd.sys
   
   
   If either the boot or system drives are SCSI-based, Ntldr loads this file and uses it instead of the boot-code functions for disk access.

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