Desktop Windows Manager (DWM) memory leakage in Windows 10 (Version 2004).

Anonymous
2020-09-06T11:24:54+00:00

The infamous dwm.exe hogging lots of memory. FYI this is not a specific program issue. It just happens with any programs, activities randomly.

I'm getting really tired of killing dwm.exe every so often so that it will release the occupied memory. When is this going to be fixed? Is this ever going to be fixed even?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-10-08T08:21:55+00:00

    It's good if reverting to this driver version helped you, but it helps in cases where the operating system is not in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian or Arabic.

    I don't know how the system language and the dwm.exe process leak are related here on this driver version, but I have personally tested in all the above mentioned languages, but no leakage was observed in any other system language. I also ran a remote session with technical support and an Intel engineer and we tested different versions of the driver. The problem was observed, but they could not identify the root of the problem as to why it was happening. Most likely the problem is indeed on the MS side, as I encountered this problem after the 20H2 update in October 2020, with no problems detected since I bought the i7-10700 in September before the 20H2 update.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-07T22:40:37+00:00

    Ok nothing fixed on Windows 11 22000.194 with 30.0.100.9922.

    Just perfect.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-10-07T12:17:39+00:00

    Just updating everyone on my experience :
    On May (5 months ago) I reverted my Intel graphics driver (UHD 600) to 26.20.100.7985 version (as recommended here by @TurboTacho on February 23 2021 - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/desktop-windows-manager-dwm-memory-leakage-in/c2968fb0-ee26-4483-9f08-dfa19149cd24?page=2 )
    Since then no leakage of dwm.exe (steady on about 100MB) even after hibernation.

    Windows 10, 21H1
    OS Build 19043.1237
    8GB RAM
    256GB SSD

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-10-07T11:21:48+00:00

    Intel has already assured several times that they have fixed the leak on new versions of the drivers, but the problem is directly on the Windows OS side.

    In May MS stated that they had fixed this problem in test build 21382, but even on the insider build these problems were observed, although not as often or the leakage stopped at 800 mb.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-10-07T09:24:29+00:00

    yesterday i have also installed intel driver (not HP driver) 30.0.100.9864 .. lets see what will happen.. dwm is currently eating ~200MB

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