N

native services

See system services.

NLS

National language support

A set of routines that give applications access to locale-specific information. See also Unicode.

nonpaged pool

See pool memory.

NtDetect

See ARC, (2).

NTFS

NT file system

A file system, native to NT, that supports file system and file data recovery, extremely large storage media, file-granular compression, and various other features.