Desktop Window Manager Stopped Working and Was Closed in Windows 11/10 [FIXED]
14Desktop Window Manager Stopped Working and Was Closed in Windows 11/10 [FIXED]
The Desktop Window Manager (DWM.exe) is a system process that helps with displaying the graphical user interface (GUI) and provides various visual effects such as transparent windows, live taskbar thumbnails, and more. If this process stops working, Windows may bug you with the "Desktop window manager stopped working and was closed" error message.
Desktop Window Manager is a practical utility for rendering the visual effects on user interfaces like transparency and high-resolution monitor support in Windows operating systems. It works as dwm.exe in the background to enable the use of hardware acceleration. Sometimes, however, you may encounter some issues like dwm.exe high CPU or memory and the one disused here.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
desktop window manager has stopped working
can i close desktop window manager
desktop windows manager not working
desktop window manager keeps crashing
desktop window manager crashing
desktop window manager stopped working
windows desktop manager crashing
windows desktop manager stopped working crash
Desktop Window Manager (DWM) is a compositing window manager that renders all those pretty effects in Windows including transparent windows, live taskbar thumbnails, Windows Flip, Flip3D, and even high-resolution monitor support. In Windows 11/10 it is a system application file that is located in the System32 folder – and you will not find any related Service in the Windows Services Manager – but you can see the process in the Task Manager.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.