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
    2021-05-24T03:39:12+00:00

    Latest 21h2 build, with latest changelogs pretending "We fixed a memory leak that could result in DWM unexpectedly using a lot of memory over time."

    https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/05/14/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-21382/

    And THIS is the result:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsinsiders/comments/nelydj/build_21382_dwm_memory_leak_worse_than_ever/

    Enough is enough!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-25T09:54:35+00:00

    And how many units is affected by this? Millions? My whole company alone uses hp notebooks with the same problem - hundreds of notebooks

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-25T10:16:06+00:00

    And how many units is affected by this? Millions? My whole company alone uses hp notebooks with the same problem - hundreds of notebooks

    As I see it, every single laptop with iGPU newer or equal of HD620 and Windows 10 >=20h2. So mostly billions of devices. Intel just speaks of a "very small percentage" which is a disgusting lie.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-07-21T12:21:39+00:00

    I have just installed latest Intel driver from the Intel site.. 30.0.100.9684 so lets see how will this go :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-07-21T12:28:18+00:00

    I have just installed latest Intel driver from the Intel site.. 30.0.100.9684 so lets see how will this go :)

    Very funny.

    https://i.imgur.com/26Xgs2C.png https://i.imgur.com/9U9nAW8.png

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