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
    2021-08-04T14:45:48+00:00

    Hello All

    I have a Lenovo T14 running Windows 10 20H2.

    I was having the dwm.exe memory leak issue. I have 16GB of RAM and it would eat up anything that was not in use within an 8 hour period.

    Rebooting was a temporary fix. I disabled "fast startup" and that did not fix the issue.

    Then I discovered that there was an Intel UHD Graphics driver released in July, which I downloaded directly from the Intel website, and that has fixed the issue. The driver version is 30.0.100.9684.

    This is where I downloaded the drivers from: Download Intel® Graphics - Windows® DCH Drivers

    I hope my experience with this issue proves useful for someone else!

    EDIT: I forgot to mention when I installed the driver the computer still wouldn't use it over the existing one, so I had to "uninstall device" and select "Delete the driver software for this device" and then scan for hardware changes.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-07-27T08:44:11+00:00

    Well, in my case it seems that it is related to the driver version. After few days and few hibernations, dwm mem usage is still bellow 1GB, or better say, in pretty normal levels

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-07-23T13:50:02+00:00

    the version is from october 2020... my observation is that bloating is much slower than with the latest where it was over 3-4GB per DAY

    Sorry I was meaning that post by "IvanPlatoff". Ivan, Vladimir, all the same.

    The rate of grow is not related to the driver version, that is subjective by you, and depends on other things, like how many times the laptop was in sleep or hibernate, how many processes are open accession the driver ect ect ect ect.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-07-23T13:39:23+00:00

    the version is from october 2020... my observation is that bloating is much slower than with the latest where it was over 3-4GB per DAY

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