Can I do anything to mitigate GDI resource leakage in Windows?

Can I do anything to mitigate GDI resource leakage in Windows?

There's a problem on all Windows systems that there's a limitation on graphical primitives that can be used system-wide. Which leads to the following: once I've started several (actually something like 25+) GUI-rich apps like Visual Studio or Internet Explorer I can't open any more windows - depending on how the application reacts to this either nothing happens or an error is reported.