What are the differences between windows service and windows driver ?
Don’t they both run in kernel mode?
Don’t they both run in session0 in win vista&7
What are the differences between windows service and windows driver ? Don’t they both
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What are the differences between windows service and windows driver ?
Don’t they both run in kernel mode?
Don’t they both run in session0 in win vista&7
Services do not run in Kernel mode. They often do run at a higher privilege level than Administrator (the NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account,) but still in userland. Drivers, especially in Vista and later, more often than not will also run in userland (with the exception of graphics card drivers1.)