Fabolous! This worked for me too. Thank you KookyBox.
Desktop Windows Manager (DWM) memory leakage in Windows 10 (Version 2004).
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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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Anonymous
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2022-01-07T09:22:20+00:00 It is this version: 30.0.101.1191
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Anonymous
2022-01-10T19:34:50+00:00 The Intel UHD 630 30.0.101.1191 from December 3, 2021 on Windows 11 is working much better. I don't think you could say DWM has totally normal behavior, but it seems way better; it may be unable to fully recover memory from heavy use of multiple desktops, but it does not grow like crazy for no reason.
Update from January 18, 2022: Now DWM is working normally; it eventually recovers all memory and it manages to get even below 100 MB! The only additional change is that I installed Explorer Patcher (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher) on Windows 11. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with it, but the fact is I see DWM performing better (to the point of being just normal) than immediately after installing the new UHD driver.
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Anonymous
2022-01-11T08:12:14+00:00 yes, in my case DWM sticks to ~400MB
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Anonymous
2022-02-26T01:56:01+00:00 Hello! Actually, DWM.EXE is not hogging lots of RAM memory. I tried to update my GPU's driver, and in some cases, DWM.EXE is still hogging lots of RAM. But I have 16 GB of RAM.