Display drivers contain most of the cursors, icons, and bitmaps that use Windows. They are supplied by the display driver to account for the aspect ratio and resolution of the display adapter. Also, the definitions of certain system parameters (for example, default colors and border widths) are supplied by the display driver. All of this information is supplied as resources that are added to the driver by the resource compiler (RC.EXE).
A display driver requires the following resources.
| Resource | Description |
| Stock fonts | The stock-font resource defines the characteristics of the stock-font objects used by Windows. |
| Configuration | The configuration resource contains information about default system colors, line widths, cursor sizes, icon sizes, and so on. |
| Color table | The color table resource contains the color table for Control Panel's Color dialog box. |
| Icons, cursors, bitmaps | The icon, cursor, and bitmap resources define the shape and appearance of various elements of the Windows desktop. |