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
    2021-10-23T09:42:49+00:00

    the problem in win 11 has actually disappeared if you install the OS from scratch rather than upgrading from win 10

    for those interested:

    if you upgrade from windows 10 to windows 11 all problems from 10 will go to 11, so install windows 11 from scratch.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-22T04:52:14+00:00

    Hello. Bad luck!!!!! My Intel UHD Graphics 630 is affected. This is why DWM eats much RAM in Windows 10 on my computer. :(

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-10-21T10:50:05+00:00

    After Installing new graphics driver fron Intel, I saw the problem has gone in my laptop with UHD 620 and the latest driver (9955 version)

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-10-21T08:13:25+00:00

    btw, for a quick and clean way to recover memory is enough just to sign out and sign in.. no need to restart windows

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-10-21T02:23:13+00:00

    Intel UHD Graphics 630:

    Driver version : 27.20.100.9664

    Vulkan : 1.2.177

    OpenCL Runtime Version: 3.0

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