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dwm.exe error
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hi sorry in advance for the long writing. so while my pc was on for couple of hours its suddenly crashed (without being in load), log out of windows and when i logged in again an error massage popped out that say dwm.exe crashed, the weird thing is that somehow nvidia control panel completely disappeared and i couldn't reinstall it (tried to install it from geforce experience, it finished the installing process but nvidia control panel still missing, i tried this way couple of time, same result) moreover my pc was freezing and i couldn't even run dism command because it saying that i dont have enough memory or something.
here is the event log:
Faulting application name: dwm.exe, version: 10.0.22621.2506, time stamp: 0xdef1fe51
Faulting module name: dwmcore.dll, version: 10.0.22621.2715, time stamp: 0xc95a35c0
Exception code: 0xc00001ad
Fault offset: 0x0000000000271a18
Faulting process id: 0x0x2F7C
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA344DF417C76D
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\dwm.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\dwmcore.dll
Report Id: 13f057e9-c3c8-49f2-b4f9-4672d5ba1895
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
really appreciate the help!
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures
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Anonymous
2023-12-22T11:36:16+00:00 Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.
This does indicate a problem with the Nvidia drivers, you should completely remove the current Nvidia device driver using the widely available free DDU utility, then restart your PC and go to the support page for your PC on the manufacturer's website to download and install their recommended version of the Nvidia device driver.
A slightly older version of that driver is more stable than the latest version.
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Anonymous
2023-12-22T18:54:56+00:00 maybe. but that's weird because there were no updates yestraday. the last nvidia update was in 12.12.23, so i cant find any good explanation to why it happened. lets hope it wont again lol.
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Anonymous
2023-12-22T17:03:28+00:00 Most likely, Windows updates installed a version of the graphics card that was incompatible with your system and it is ow resolved
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Anonymous
2023-12-22T16:49:03+00:00 thank you! in the meantime the problem is solved :) i just wonder it happend so suddenly.