This article discusses Hardware Interrupts in Windows and how to show the boot menu in Windows. A video at the MSDN blog shows Windows booting real fast – under seven seconds. The computer used was an ...

A signal created and sent to the CPU that is caused by some action taken by a hardware device. For example, keystroke depressions and mouse movements cause hardware interrupts. See IRQ and interrupt.

Performance is a topic that never strays far from the mind of most embedded systems developers. However, relatively speaking, many of us have it easy. We develop soft real-time systems in which a few ...

This is very strange: on my newer machine (just a few months old) I get occasional bouts of high CPU usage due to hardware interrupts (as reported by Process Explorer). The weird part is how it's so ...

A kernel can be defined as the essential center of an operating system. The kernel is the core of an operating system that provides a set of basic services for the other parts of the operating system.

Device Manager Error Code 36 occurs when the IRQ (Interrupt Request) translation fails for a peripheral device. An IRQ is a signal sent by a hardware device to a ...

This hardware/software combination lets OSes offload all TCP/IP traffic to the specialized hardware. TCP/IP has long been the common language for network traffic, and recent initiatives such as ...