Yeah, Windows in this era already had the concept of bitmaps in system memory an...

		kevingadd 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid backgrou... Yeah, Windows in this era already had the concept of bitmaps in system memory and bitmaps in device memory, so the desktop background could have been decompressed into GPU memory and then thrown away to free up CPU-side RAM. Not sure whether it would actually do that though.