Hello, and welcome to our second post in the Windows 7 launch series. This post is going to be a long one, so buckle in. We’re going to start with an overview of Fault Tolerant Heap, which is a new feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and then go over some Memory Management pieces. If you’re not familiar with the general concepts of Heap, you may want to start by reading our previous posts - Heap, Part One and Heap, Part Two. Heap is a term used to describe several type of memory structures that are used to store information. For instance, every process has what is called 'process heap' and this exists as long as the process lives. A process can also have what is called a 'private heap', which is for use only by the process that creates it. A DLL can also create a heap, and does so within the memory space of the process that owns the DLL.
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