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February 2006 - Posts

Introduction to Winsock Kernel (WSK)

Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 9:45 AM by wndpteam
Overview of WSK In Windows Vista a new transport-independent kernel mode Network Programming Interface (NPI) called Winsock Kernel (WSK) has been added. Using WSK, kernel-mode software modules can perform network communication using socket-like programming Read More...
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Winsock and Vista User Account Control

Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:41 AM by wndpteam
As you might have heard, Vista introduces User Account Control (UAC) which is a security feature that enables users to perform some tasks as non-Administrators. This has an effect on LSP writers as the Winsock functions to install and remove LSP entries Read More...
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Categorizing LSPs and Applications

Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:53 PM by wndpteam
In Windows Vista there is a new method for categorizing both Winsock Layered Service Providers (LSP) and applications themselves such that only certain LSPs will be loaded. There are a couple reasons for adding this functionality. One of the main reasons Read More...
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