To see the overall architecture, the following block diagram I created for Wikipedia some time ago might be helpful:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.m.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Windows_2000_architecture.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.m.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Windows_2000_archi...</a><p>Incidentally, it annoys the living snott out of me that I took the time to put a PNG version of this together, someone redoes the diagram as an SVG then someone loads it to commons and I don&#x27;t get any credit!<p><i>Update:</i> I speak too soon. The image viewer doesn&#x27;t show it, but the main page does.