This is a known bug since Windows 20h2, Microsoft and Intel refuse to take Blame. Most of it happens with new Intel HD 630 drivers, but some have reported it in amd systems as well. If you have the problem running Intel 8th gen installing old drivers Will fix it maybe by breaking the buggy Windows feature. Thank you for making the vídeo this is a huge bug more than 1 year old and MS hasn't even acknowledged it. It is also present in the new mac copy skin for Windows 10 called Windows 11 so please spread the word and maybe someone with power sues MS. (Windows update Will force this bug on you if you are running 8th gen Intel)
Not really. The real underlying issue with dwm.exe is it is a front end for telemetry. Be all, end all. This isn't a "bug". This is a feature. That is why it persists and reactivate since the inception of win 10. Look back since the beginning. People had it for gpu/cpu spiking and staying because the call for telemetry happens but there isn't a proper kill function for it unless you put it to sleep.
@@rb9951 what you mean this is not a bug? The memory is not being used for caching it is trapped, it is one of the most taught things of what NOT to do when writing a program.
Finally I think this solved my issue. We'll see, but all other posts were focusing on updating the Indel video driver and I have not been able to get that to work. So far so good.
omfg, your a lifesaver. my pc in first stage it keep crashing taskbar, and second stage it dwm.exe has high memory and it fix by your method fixing. thank you so much man
temporary easy solution for me after you turn on your laptop let it load all startup apps then go to task manager close DWM (may result to screen turning black OR screen turning black for a few seconds then windows coming back again, either of the 2 is ok), next ctrl+alt+del then choose sign out (not shut down/restart) this step is necessary , then after signing out log back in that should solve the problem for me i hope it works for you
How i fix mine Go control panel - then power option-to choose what power buttons do - then change settings that are currently are unavailable -then turn off fast startup - save changes - restart pc and Done
YESSS THANKS A LOT, i had 10gb memory used for desktop window manager and after tried 1st option it become less than 100mb, it feels like i can breath again now lol
GUYS DON'T DO THE SECOND STEP !! the second step which involves clearing paging files made my windows shutdown time from 15 secs to 3+ minutes... I would highly recommend not doing it...
This worked for me thanks, but I want to know why it happened? I recently got my laptop to a 12gb upgrade to my laptop that has an intel 620HD. The DWM doesnt really use that much ram before until I upgraded, I remember updating my windows too but I don't know if it was the same time as when I updated windows, did my ram upgrade caused this does that mean its faulty or is it because of windows update?
So when i start my pc the ram slowly begins going from 60 mb RAM to eventually over 2,5 gb ram most cases even 8 gb ram usage. The only working solutions i found is if i restart my pc (manually) or if end dwm.exe also (manually) but im sick of doing that manually. So is there a way to like end dwm.exe on startup? Maybe with some kind of command?
I saw those registry tweaks on another video and was wondering what they actually do. I can kind of guess about the second registry key you showed, as its name is pretty clear, but what about the first one? I think it changes the startup type of the Network Data Usage service, right?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK TO MAKE THE VIDEO. EDIT1. DIDN'T WORK AT ALL FOR ME. EDIT2. FIX ( REVERT TO A SYSTEM RESTORE BEFORE THE UPDATE ) THIS WORKED FOR ME, GOT RID OF THE PROBLEM. JUST UPDATED MY WINDOWS LAST UPDATE AND NOW I GOT SAME PROBLEM.... NO NEW DRIVERS OR UPDATES ON ANYTHING ELSE , NOW I GET THE ERROR OF HIGHT USAGE OF RAM... SO IT'S A WINDOWS PROBLEM!!!! THERE'S NO 100% FIX .... ONLY TO END IT IN TASK MANAGER , OR ANOTHER FIX IS TO RESET YOUR PC MORE OFTEN... ( UNTILL THEY WILL FIX IT ON A NEW UPDATE ).
Hello I have an i5 1135G7 . I tried changing it to 4 instead of 3 but it jus stays on the base speed which is 2.42Ghz and when I play games it Drops to 0.79. Any fix?
Unfortunately only the first option, with ending the task of dwm.exe, works for me. And what is irritating about this is, that I have custom color settings, that are resetting to default, when I'm ending the desktop window manager task, and the only thing that is fixing it, is to switch users and log in again, which takes some time.
Disable Hardware Acceleration If you have hardware acceleration enabled, the DWM might get to utilize the excess of the GPU resources. The hardware acceleration feature consumes a higher proportion of GPU and extracts much from the CPU as well.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot! It usually use up 100+ mb on my computer and sometime jumps up to over 1gb which is really annoying. Your method fixed it right away but will it affect other applications or only desktop window manager? Anyway, thanks!
Thank you so much, it worked, by the way is it normal when sometime desktop window manager spiking to 10% of gpu usage?, after a few second it drops to under 2% again
I am leaving this comment here because some people still coment on my comment. Intel has since fix this bug in the new drivers for intel hd630 drivers. You cant get them in their website. Be warned this is only for intel systems and I can confirm it works to stop dwm.exe bloating memory leak. If it happens again it might be due to windows update rolling back drivers thinking it is actually updating.
I have tried every things but in keeps showing me that my GPU usage is between 100% and 90% while i am not running any programs while even the programs using gpu about just 2% while it ahows me i am using 100%
Hi! You can fix the problem by reverting one of the registries back to it's original setting and keep the other one changed (can't remember which one). That way, you fix the memory leak without long startup time.
i dont know why but after i try this step , my restart screen take decades .... i read the comment and it look like there is a guy that have my exact same proplem .. i think i fck up my computer
Thanks for the feedback. Can you revert back to original settings and see what happens? I will make another video exploring this issue since two people have now reported it.
For me, the below change worked instead of the changes mentioned in the RUclips video. Please revert the changes shown in RUclips and try the below mentioned method once, to confirm. 1. Press Windows + R to open Run. 2. Type regedit and hit Enter. 3. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics. 4. Right click on the blank space in the right pane and choose New -> QWORD (64-bit) Value/ DWORD (32-bit) Value (depending on your system). 5. Name the new value as DisableHWAcceleration. 6. Double click on DisableHWAcceleration and change the Value data to 1. 7. Click on the OK button to confirm. Now, close Registry Editor. 8. Restart the system. Thanks.
@@vufung System 32 is a system folder located in your Local Disk: C. It contains all the files required to run windows correctly. Desktop Window Manager is a System 32 file. Deleting System 32 is a joke. If you delete it, your computer is dead and will never turn on unless you buy another Windows Operating System.
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This is a known bug since Windows 20h2, Microsoft and Intel refuse to take Blame. Most of it happens with new Intel HD 630 drivers, but some have reported it in amd systems as well. If you have the problem running Intel 8th gen installing old drivers Will fix it maybe by breaking the buggy Windows feature. Thank you for making the vídeo this is a huge bug more than 1 year old and MS hasn't even acknowledged it. It is also present in the new mac copy skin for Windows 10 called Windows 11 so please spread the word and maybe someone with power sues MS. (Windows update Will force this bug on you if you are running 8th gen Intel)
Great insight, thank you!
Not really. The real underlying issue with dwm.exe is it is a front end for telemetry. Be all, end all.
This isn't a "bug". This is a feature. That is why it persists and reactivate since the inception of win 10. Look back since the beginning. People had it for gpu/cpu spiking and staying because the call for telemetry happens but there isn't a proper kill function for it unless you put it to sleep.
@@rb9951 what you mean this is not a bug? The memory is not being used for caching it is trapped, it is one of the most taught things of what NOT to do when writing a program.
@@rb9951 How do I fix the cpu/gpu spiking because I have these problems rn
@@ryanwang4627 update your Intel graphic driver
dude you are a lifesaver, thanks for the help. My ram usage for dwm went down from 4GB to 200MB.
First step boom! My nephew sold me this laptop because it was too slow and I updated all the drivers. You are a true God send. Be blessed my friend!
Damn I was worried about ending it, well good to know nothing bad hapenned :DD
Desktop windows manager has been slowing down my games and making it stutter for weeks until I did this thanks alot
The first step worked instantly dude.. thanks 🙏🏾
Finally I think this solved my issue. We'll see, but all other posts were focusing on updating the Indel video driver and I have not been able to get that to work. So far so good.
Hi guys! If you are having problems with start-up times after applying this method, set the ClearPageFileAtShutdown back to it's original value = 0.
what was initial value of 'Start' ?
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@@henrynordman thanks
omfg, your a lifesaver. my pc in first stage it keep crashing taskbar, and second stage it dwm.exe has high memory and it fix by your method fixing. thank you so much man
Great!
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Thx for the comment! I love u too bro !
Thanks man it works dwm ram usage went from 500 mb to 30 mb
Great to hear that!
In fact, the problem is solved when I restart my PC but the next time I turn on the RAM leak starts again 😢
Turn off animations... thats the only thing that actually works
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I tried updating my drivers, updating windows, downgrading drivers, EVERYTHING, but only this method worked.
Great that it helped 👍
Bro dwm.exe has very GPU usage (40%) while playing games. I followed the steps you showed but it didn't fix
I lone your tutorial, thanks! It also worked for Windows 8 Comsumer
It actually worked. Thank you very much
Great 👍
from 200 mb to 15 mb thank you so much u got 1 sub
Thank you !
This method still works, went from 2.2kMB memory usage to 82MB!
Glad to hear!
worked for me, thank your very much. Dropped from 900 MB to 45 MB on win10.
Glad to hear that!
temporary easy solution for me after you turn on your laptop let it load all startup apps then go to task manager close DWM (may result to screen turning black OR screen turning black for a few seconds then windows coming back again, either of the 2 is ok), next ctrl+alt+del then choose sign out (not shut down/restart) this step is necessary , then after signing out log back in that should solve the problem for me i hope it works for you
Until now it works :D
before it had a 700mb-1000mb ram usage
now it is 30mb
this is not a problem for my pc
but my laptop it is
soo Thanks c:
Thank you, you reduce my ram usage from 200/300mb to 44mb.
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management -> ClearPageFileAtShutdown = 1
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu -> Start = 4
-> Restart Windows
Thanks 👍
I changed 1st option from 2 to 4 & 2nd option from 0 to 1 (As you said). I reduced RAM usage from 2200MB to 30MB. Thank you very much 🔥
did you use option 2 in this video bro?
How i fix mine Go control panel - then power option-to choose what power buttons do - then change settings that are currently are unavailable -then turn off fast startup - save changes - restart pc and Done
YESSS THANKS A LOT, i had 10gb memory used for desktop window manager and after tried 1st option it become less than 100mb, it feels like i can breath again now lol
Thank you so much ❤️
It went from 600-700mb to below 80mb 🤯🔥
BRO THANKS OML IT WAS USING A GB OF MY RAM NOW IT WENT DOWN TO 80MB
GUYS DON'T DO THE SECOND STEP !!
the second step which involves clearing paging files made my windows shutdown time from 15 secs to 3+ minutes... I would highly recommend not doing it...
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From 75% To 24%
Thank You So Much Man
It worked! thank you so much!
thanks man you are so cool that you make theshe video many love from german(:
Thanks for the comment!
Thx man . It went from 400mb-1Gb to 80 mb .
oh my god thank you so much my dwm was at 1,500 mb memory and now its fucking 33 mb wtf dude wow. subbed
This worked for me thanks, but I want to know why it happened? I recently got my laptop to a 12gb upgrade to my laptop that has an intel 620HD. The DWM doesnt really use that much ram before until I upgraded, I remember updating my windows too but I don't know if it was the same time as when I updated windows, did my ram upgrade caused this does that mean its faulty or is it because of windows update?
Thank you sho much the task manager trick worked I was unable to do anything.
Thank you so much 🙏🔥
So when i start my pc the ram slowly begins going from 60 mb RAM to eventually over 2,5 gb ram most cases even 8 gb ram usage. The only working solutions i found is if i restart my pc (manually) or if end dwm.exe also (manually) but im sick of doing that manually. So is there a way to like end dwm.exe on startup? Maybe with some kind of command?
"sc config NDU start= disabled" but there may be problems
I saw those registry tweaks on another video and was wondering what they actually do. I can kind of guess about the second registry key you showed, as its name is pretty clear, but what about the first one? I think it changes the startup type of the Network Data Usage service, right?
thank you very much mate i went from 2400 mb to 80 ~ 100
Thanks dude !! Useful video !
it worked! thank you!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK TO MAKE THE VIDEO.
EDIT1. DIDN'T WORK AT ALL FOR ME.
EDIT2. FIX ( REVERT TO A SYSTEM RESTORE BEFORE THE UPDATE ) THIS WORKED FOR ME, GOT RID OF THE PROBLEM.
JUST UPDATED MY WINDOWS LAST UPDATE AND NOW I GOT SAME PROBLEM....
NO NEW DRIVERS OR UPDATES ON ANYTHING ELSE , NOW I GET THE ERROR OF HIGHT USAGE OF RAM...
SO IT'S A WINDOWS PROBLEM!!!!
THERE'S NO 100% FIX .... ONLY TO END IT IN TASK MANAGER , OR ANOTHER FIX IS TO RESET YOUR PC MORE OFTEN... ( UNTILL THEY WILL FIX IT ON A NEW UPDATE ).
Thanks for feedback !
it works, thank u so much
My Desktop Windows Manager use 100% GPU...How can i fix it? Please help
It helps! Thank you!
THANK YOU ...REALLY HELPFUL..
Hello I have an i5 1135G7 . I tried changing it to 4 instead of 3 but it jus stays on the base speed which is 2.42Ghz and when I play games it Drops to 0.79. Any fix?
thank you man! youre the best
Glad to help!
Great Share My Friend, Always Succes My Friend.
Thanks!
Unfortunately only the first option, with ending the task of dwm.exe, works for me. And what is irritating about this is, that I have custom color settings, that are resetting to default, when I'm ending the desktop window manager task, and the only thing that is fixing it, is to switch users and log in again, which takes some time.
thank you so much this really help me so much
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Will this help to reduce gpu usage because Desktop window manager takes up 10% gpu while afk
Disable Hardware Acceleration
If you have hardware acceleration enabled, the DWM might get to utilize the excess of the GPU resources. The hardware acceleration feature consumes a higher proportion of GPU and extracts much from the CPU as well.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot! It usually use up 100+ mb on my computer and sometime jumps up to over 1gb which is really annoying. Your method fixed it right away but will it affect other applications or only desktop window manager?
Anyway, thanks!
I have tried all methods but it didn't work for me . should i wait for next update currently iam using Windows 10 Pro 21H2
Thank you so much, it worked, by the way is it normal when sometime desktop window manager spiking to 10% of gpu usage?, after a few second it drops to under 2% again
It was doing that on mine as well
what is your gpu
Usually it wasnt but I dont know ehat happend after I Updated my Win mine also started to eat 10% of My GPU btw I have GTX 1650 Laptop GPU
@@quincyames2014 actually 3080ti, at first seems i didn't really care about dwm gpu usage, but the longer it goes on, it annoys me
I am leaving this comment here because some people still coment on my comment. Intel has since fix this bug in the new drivers for intel hd630 drivers. You cant get them in their website. Be warned this is only for intel systems and I can confirm it works to stop dwm.exe bloating memory leak. If it happens again it might be due to windows update rolling back drivers thinking it is actually updating.
didn't work, it went back to high cpu and high memory usage again after restarting pc...
I have tried every things but in keeps showing me that my GPU usage is between 100% and 90% while i am not running any programs while even the programs using gpu about just 2% while it ahows me i am using 100%
well before my memory was at 2g now it is at 8 it certenly got worse
Sad to hear that! Just revert back to the original settings
i used it yesterday and the problem was fixed , but now i have it again and its using more than 1Gb = 1000+ MB
Ill Comeback after 1 week to see the result thanks
yeah it doesnt seem to work sadly
IT WORKED!
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What happens if there is not Ndu folder?
Does high memory usage cause VLC videos to lag or stutter?
I just did this and now my laptop doesnt turn on. It's not a joke I need HELP
thanks for the help brother
When i end task it appears my windows will become unuseable
It should come back up by itself in 10 seconds.
The task is mandatory process for Windows but what we are trying to achieve here is to restart the task.
it worked i love u thanks
Tnx for help👌
You're welcome !
i tried this on a laptop and it restarted in like 5 minutes, i will revert now tho its fine 😬
Hi! You can fix the problem by reverting one of the registries back to it's original setting and keep the other one changed (can't remember which one). That way, you fix the memory leak without long startup time.
@@henrynordman oh ok i will try 👍
@LASER FUSSER ah damn i think the first one, it didnt do much for me i just added another 8 ram
you just need to update your intel graphic driver for solve this issue.
Thanks for the feedback
i dont know why but after i try this step , my restart screen take decades .... i read the comment and it look like there is a guy that have my exact same proplem .. i think i fck up my computer
Thanks for the feedback. Can you revert back to original settings and see what happens? I will make another video exploring this issue since two people have now reported it.
Same , took like 5 minutes to restart
Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown = 0. Should fix the problem without affecting restart times.
does this also count for high gpu utilization?
did it work for GPU?
@@raizel_alucard4571 no i stzill have it after 3 new updates for nvidia idk never hat this haha
It Really Works
Glad to hear!
Thanks brooo
You are welcome !
Does it actually work
It worked thankss
worked!
didnt work
For me, the below change worked instead of the changes mentioned in the RUclips video. Please revert the changes shown in RUclips and try the below mentioned method once, to confirm.
1. Press Windows + R to open Run.
2. Type regedit and hit Enter.
3. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics.
4. Right click on the blank space in the right pane and choose New -> QWORD (64-bit) Value/ DWORD (32-bit) Value (depending on your system).
5. Name the new value as DisableHWAcceleration.
6. Double click on DisableHWAcceleration and change the Value data to 1.
7. Click on the OK button to confirm. Now, close Registry Editor.
8. Restart the system.
Thanks.
Thanks for the response!
Your method and video's method,which method is better?
Can vouch for this, tried this method just now and seems to solve the issue. Let's see how it'll turn out in the future.
Thanks!
not working
Fixed win 11 , THX
Win 11 High memory ... chip intel 8th
4 & 0 to back to normal
It has become even worse 🙄 it has risen from 4 GB to 5,3 GB RAM 🧐
if I try just one of step 2 or 3 it is better from 4 GB to 2,5 GB
You can always go back to original settings.
Boooooo. Explain what ur actually doing to ur system. Not everyone knows what these mean and how it might adversely affect them.
2 and 0
Delete System 32 to solve problem.
more details please.
@@vufung System 32 is a system folder located in your Local Disk: C. It contains all the files required to run windows correctly. Desktop Window Manager is a System 32 file. Deleting System 32 is a joke. If you delete it, your computer is dead and will never turn on unless you buy another Windows Operating System.
Awesome Bro!! Thank You
Thanks bro
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