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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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-12-16T15:21:54+00:00

    The lastest driver from Intel fixes the problem. I tried yesterday and it is working flawlessly.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-09-09T17:31:18+00:00

    Still no fix, Windows updates are so bad and with so many ridicule bugs they are becoming a meme. Intel to. The devs have no idea of what they are writing. I Will not be surprised when Word and Excel start bricking PCs and I am preety sure even the present mac version of Office is more reliable. "**** You for the customer we are to big to bear any responsability" is the new slogan

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-04T20:09:11+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.

    No.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-07-27T20:41:11+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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    Sigh.............. YES, IN THAT CASE. OF COURSE. Because some older drivers break modern standby, that is discussed all in the Intel forum. Broken modern standby = no leak. But thats not a solution.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-05-12T18:39:12+00:00

    Hello Vladimir!

    For me helps that trick for almost whole laptop working day to prevent more than 50 mb after that procedure

    1. Run Command Prompt as Administrator,

    and paste that lines

    @ECHO OFF
    taskkill /F /IM dwm.exe
    taskkill /F /IM conhost.exe

    Your screen will be black for second - and right now hit Enter (to close command prompt)

    1. Ctrl+Alt+Esc - to open task manager - find line Administrator: Command Promt - and kill by Del button. Easy to find that line - because it almost in the end of tasks - and it with more Power Usage (with Orange color).

    --- It works for me almost for 6 monts... while dear developers solve that bug....

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