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

2021-10-06T14:49:07+00:00

dwm.exe is leaking on Windows 11?
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2021-10-06T14:41:28+00:00

Do you still have the problem?

I just stopped detecting the dwm.exe leak since September 20th, but after switching to Win 11, the problem started detecting again, so I had to go back to Win 10, and, the problem, again stopped detecting.

A friend of mine keeps experiencing dwm.exe leaks on Win 10, as long as he has the same version of OS and drivers as I do.
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Anonymous

2021-09-17T09:56:30+00:00

And now, today after reboot, dwm is again bloating, without any hibernations .. just after few hours of working
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2021-09-16T08:02:29+00:00

I still havent restarted notebook from driver update, performed several hibernations in the meantim and dwm is not leaking:
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Anonymous

2021-09-16T03:40:36+00:00

I also experienced dwm using a lot of memory until my laptop crashed I didn't check the task manager but when I opened the task manager the dwm used almost all the ram. I am using Intel UHD 620 27.20.100.8729. It's been like this every day.

Bla. Fix is hopefully here end of September.
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