Chapter 26 Memory Management

All applications must use memory in order to run. Because Microsoft Windows is a multitasking system, several applications may use memory simultaneously. Windows manages the available memory to make sure all applications have access to it, and to make the use of memory as efficient as possible.

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the Microsoft Windows memory-management system.

This chapter covers the following topics:

Using memory in the Windows environment

Using code and data segments efficiently