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  2. Graphics Device Interface - Wikipedia

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    The Graphics Device Interface in the architecture of Windows NT For example GDK makes use of GDI. The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers. It was superseded by DirectDraw API and later ...

  3. List of Microsoft Windows components - Wikipedia

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    The compositing manager introduced in Windows Vista that handles compositing and manages special effects on screen objects in a graphical user interface Graphics Device Interface: GDI/GDI+ The kernel graphics component for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers Windows USER

  4. Microsoft Windows library files - Wikipedia

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    USER32.DLL implements the Windows USER component that creates and manipulates the standard elements of the Windows user interface, such as the desktop, windows, and menus. It thus enables programs to implement a graphical user interface (GUI) that matches the Windows look and feel. Programs call functions from Windows USER to perform operations ...

  5. Windows API - Wikipedia

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    The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) component provides features to output graphics content to monitors, printers, and other output devices. It resides in gdi.exe on 16-bit Windows, and gdi32.dll on 32-bit Windows in user-mode. Kernel-mode GDI support is provided by win32k.sys which communicates directly with the graphics driver. [3] [4]

  6. History of the graphical user interface - Wikipedia

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    Windows 95 was touted as a 32-bit based operating system but it was actually based on a hybrid kernel (VWIN32.VXD) with the 16-bit user interface (USER.EXE) and graphic device interface (GDI.EXE) of Windows for Workgroups (3.11), which had 16-bit kernel components with a 32-bit subsystem (USER32.DLL and GDI32.DLL) that allowed it to run native ...

  7. Windows Display Driver Model - Wikipedia

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    Display Diagnostics, with Kernel mode device driver interface changes to allow the driver for a display controller to report diagnostic events to the operating system. Shared graphics power components, allowing non-graphics drivers to participate in the power management of a graphics device.

  8. GDI - Wikipedia

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    Graphics Device Interface, a component of Microsoft Windows; Guanosine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor, a protein; Organisations. Gabriel Dumont Institute, in ...

  9. Direct3D - Wikipedia

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    Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows.Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications where performance is important, such as games.