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Windows 7

2009

The well-received 2009 release refining Windows Vista with a revamped taskbar, faster performance and better usability.

Reference & documentation

External technical references for programming Windows 7 and for writing emulators.

ResourceTypeNotes
Microsoft PE Format Specification ↗FormatCanonical PE/COFF executable format used by ReactOS
Intel 64 and IA-32 Software Developer Manuals ↗Instruction setx86-64 instruction set and system programming manuals
Windows x64 NT System Call Table ↗Interrupt listSyscall numbers across every NT x64 build
KPCR (amd64) Structure (Geoff Chappell) ↗Memory mapKPCR layout and gs-register access on x64
Wine Developer's Guide: Architecture Overview ↗ProgrammingHow Wine reimplements Win32 DLLs and NT kernel
Windows 7 All-in-One Install ISO (Internet Archive) ↗ROMsWindows 7 all-editions install ISO image
NTAPI Undocumented Functions ↗ReferenceNative syscall (Nt/Zw) API reference and structures
Functions Exported from the Windows Kernel (Geoff Chappell) ↗ReferenceEvery exported Windows kernel function, per version
ReactOS Source Cross-Reference (Doxygen) ↗SourceBrowsable open-source NT kernel and Win32 implementation