Windows Internals News Today

From fresh Surface devices for business customers to new AI-focused divisions, catch up with the latest stories from the world of the software giant in today's Microsoft Weekly news recap.

Once you've run Windows 10 or 11 for a while, it can become bloated with out-of-date device drivers. Use Driver Store Explorer and some simple techniques to pare down the number of obsolete or unused drivers in the Windows driver store.

Table of contents Table of contents Introduction User-Mode Application Kernel-Mode Driver Example: Listing Kernel Memory Pool Tag Final Thoughts Introduction Over the last few years that I spent learning more and more about Microsoft Windows, it has been more and more apparent that studying the NT kernel is an incredibly deep and vast subject, nevertheless particularly interesting. A lot of research exists online and Windows Internals books are probably the best allies for this journey.