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== Usage ==

Object Manager paths are available to many Windows API file functions, although Win32 names like {{tt|\\?\}} and {{tt|\\.\}} for the local namespaces suffice for most uses.<ref>{{cite web |title=Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces - Win32 apps |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file |website=docs.microsoft.com |language=en-us}}</ref> Using the former in Win32 user-mode functions translates directly to {{tt|\??}}, but using {{tt|\??}} is still different as this NT form does not turn off pathname expansion.<ref>{{cite web |title=winapi - Is there a difference between \??\ and \\?\ paths? |url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25090101/is-there-a-difference-between-and-paths |website=Stack Overflow}}</ref>

Tools that serve as explorers in the Object Manager namespaces are available. These include the 32-bit WinObj from [[Sysinternals]]<ref>{{cite web |title=WinObj - Windows Sysinternals |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/winobj |website=docs.microsoft.com |language=en-us}}</ref> and the 64-bit WinObjEx64.<ref>{{cite web |title=hfiref0x/WinObjEx64: Windows Object Explorer 64-bit |url=https://github.com/hfiref0x/WinObjEx64 |website=GitHub |date=20 February 2020}}</ref>

==See also==

*[[Architecture of Windows NT]]