You obviously came to the wrong place for an answer. Windows will not display it 
and never has................

"Video boards for the last few years are 24 bit color (called True Color). Note that 
there is no 32 bit color. The confusion is that 24 bit color mode normally uses 32 
bit video mode today, referring to the efficient 32 bit accelerator chips (word size).

The 24 bit color mode and so-called 32 bit video mode show the same 24 bit colors, 
the same 3 bytes RGB per pixel. 32 bit mode simply discards one of the four bytes 
(wasting 25% of video memory), because having 3 bytes per pixel severely limits video 
acceleration functions. 

Processor chips can only copy data in byte multiples (8, 16, 32, or 64 bits). A 24 
bit copy done with a hardware video accelerator would require three 8-bit transfers 
per pixel instead of one 32-bit transfer. 32 bit video mode is for speed, and it 
shows 24 bit color."

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