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Thanks...

"Bob Gonder" <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote in message 
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> So, you are creating a BMP of 4000 x 2500 x 4 bytes, or 40 MB.

Several of them, actually, depending on user input... Some of my test images 
are 8-bit grayscale 8"x8" 1000DPI scans (also measuring 40MB), with the 
provided possibility of something even larger - although that possibility 
may have to be revisited now...

> Those and more....
> http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?brand=Msdn&refinement=&locale=en-us&lang=&query=gdi
>
The above pointed me to:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2007/01/04/desktop-heap-overview.aspx

which led me to:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2006/12/15/getting-ready-for-windows-debugging.aspx

for dheapmon, which produced the results:
R:\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86>dheapmon
Desktop Heap Information Monitor Tool (Version 8.1.2925.0)
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
-------------------------------------------------------------
  Session ID:    0 Total Desktop: (  5824 KB -    8 desktops)

  WinStation\Desktop            Heap Size(KB)    Used Rate(%)
-------------------------------------------------------------
  WinSta0\Default                    3072             99.1
  WinSta0\Disconnect                   64              4.5
  WinSta0\Winlogon                    128             10.2
  Service-0x0-3e7$\Default            512             32.1
  Service-0x0-3e4$\Default            512              8.8
  Service-0x0-3e5$\Default            512              4.3
  SAWinSta\SADesktop                  512              0.5
  __X78B95_89_IW\__A8D9S1_42_ID       512              0.5
-------------------------------------------------------------

99.1% usage is a little tight.

Well, at least now I have some way of quantifying the value, even if I can't 
apparently (safely) determine this directly programmatically.

Wonder how far I could get creating my own "desktop"???  Something to 
explore, I suppose...