Obviously one can do this on a regular computer, but I WILL DO IT EVERY SINGLE SPARE TIME I HAVE, TRYING TO DECYPHER THE OS. AT ANY OPPORTUNITY I WILL OPEN THE VM AND BEGIN STUDYING
There are leaked copies of the Windows 7 source code. It's probably 10-100x more efficient to learn with that instead of poking around memory registers.
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