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Vista video corruption. Repeatable. – Vista Forums

I just found something interesting about why I was hitting weird artifact and video corruption problems on my win2k3 server box. After reading the following I realized that winword.exe had hit the 10000 GDI object limit and was causing havoc.

He might also want to run Task Manager, turn on “Show processes from all

users” (just in case), go to the Processes tab, turn on Handles, Threads,

and GDI Objects, and then verify those numbers at the start of the day

versus at the end when things are in a bad way.

I'd think that that application is badly written and causing resource

starvation.

via Vista video corruption. Repeatable. – Vista Forums.

Following the workarounds on this support article fixed it for me.

Desktop application menus are improperly displayed if a process exceeds its GDI object quota in Windows XP or in Windows 2000.

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