Booting process of Windows NT: Difference between revisions

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<code>autochk</code> mounts all drives and checks them one at a time to see whether or not they were cleanly unmounted. If autochk determines one or more volumes are dirty, it will automatically run chkdsk and provides the user with a short window to abort the repair process by pressing a key within 10 seconds (introduced in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4; earlier versions would not allow the user to abort chkdsk). Since Windows 2000, XP and 2003 show no text screen at that point (unlike NT 3.1 to 4.0, which displayed a blue text screen), the user will see a different background picture holding a mini-text-screen in the center of the screen and show the progress of chkdsk there.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Resource Kit |url=http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_mdca.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311183615/http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_mdca.asp |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |publisher=Microsoft Corporation}}</ref>

Starting with Windows Vista, the Session Manager Subsystem creates a temporary instance of itself that launches the Windows Startup Application (<code>wininit.exe</code>) and a second Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (<code>csrss.exe</code>) for Session 0, a session decided to system processes. From here, the Windows Startup Application starts the [[Service Control Manager]] (<code>services.exe</code>), which starts all the Windows services that are set to "Auto-Start" and sets the <code>LastKnownGood</code> to the current control set.<ref name=":0" /> The application also starts the [[Local Security Authority Subsystem Service]] (<code>lsass.exe</code>). Before Windows Vista, these processes wherewere started by [[Winlogon|Windows Logon]] instead of the Windows Startup Application, which didn't exist. The dedicated session for system processes also didn't exist.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Archiveddocs |title=Windows Administration: Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 2 |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc162480(v=msdn.10) |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=learn.microsoft.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

The Session Manager Subsystem now starts [[Winlogon]] (Windows Logon Application), which is responsible for handling interactive logons to a Windows system, either local or remote.<ref name=":2" />