Just some books I found very useful during my experiments, in alphabetical order.

 IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer’s Manual, 2002, available at www.intel.com

  D. A. Solomon, M. E. Russinovich, Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, Third Edition, Microsoft Press, 2000.

  S. Mitchell, Inside the Windows 95 File System, First Edition, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., May 1997.

  W. Oney, Systems Programming for Windows 95, Microsoft Press, 1996.

  A. Baker, J. Lozano, The Windows 2000 Device Driver Book, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.

  S. B. Schreiber, Undocumented Windows 2000 Secrets A Programmer's Cookbook, Addison-Wesley, First printing, April 2001.

  P. Dabak, S. Phadke, M. Borate, Undocumented Windows NT, M&T Books, 1999.