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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-11-17T03:21:04+00:00

    Latest news I've received:

    The Intel community moderator has provided an update to the situation, they have released a Beta driver for Intel Graphics with the supposed fix for DWM leaking: Re: BUG: dwm.exe uses memory leakage with Intel HD Graphics 630 - Page 27 - Intel Communities

    I am currently using that particular beta driver, and will be monitoring the DWM in the next 24-48 hours. The driver version in question is 30.0.101.1121.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-11-03T18:48:59+00:00

    I am wating the solution to the DWM.EXE Memory leak too.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-10-31T17:36:08+00:00

    This bug will ever be fixed? We are waiting for years.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-23T22:29:26+00:00

    Hi, saw this post on the search for myself. Had the same problem. 

    In case you didn't find a fix for yourself. I want to share my solution:

    In my case, I updated Windows 10 to 2004 and by doing so had a driver problem with my Intel HD Graphics 630, which lead to an install of the latest version. I did that all for the new GPU scheduling feature and thought that was the problem.

    After many researches on the web I found a post on Reddit, where someone commented the solution that worked for me. The Intel drivers caused a memory leak for dwm.exe. I had to uninstall it and install an older version of the drivers from early 2020.

    Here to the comment on Reddit which helped me.

    It is an intel problem, I saw this issue happening from the latest version. I didn't upgrade my nvidia driver tho.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-09T15:27:54+00:00

    I am having the same issue on an HP ZBook 14u G5. UHD620 + AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100. Tried all "internet" solutions and still using 2.5GB.

    I hope someone can provide a solution.

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