I have seen 4-5 bug reports recently--all windows98-- where the symptoms indicated that windows ran out of GDI handles (black and white screenshots, active content updating but screen paints failing, etc.) I have not seen anything similar on WinNT/2k/XP. I have been assuming that this was caused by the sloppy crash-cleanup on win98: when a program crashes on win98, windows does not reclaim open GDI handles.
But due to the frequency of reports, I am wondering if there is any place in the code that treats Win98 differently than WinNT... perhaps there is a hidden handle leak somewhere? It may not even be in graphics code... registry handles or window handles may also be the culprit.
