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I couldnt find that process in W11... however - I did a hard reboot and it came back to normal, but first I went in and turned off a lot of autostart cruft - bu
by samstave 5y ago
I couldnt find that process in W11... however - I did a hard reboot and it came back to normal, but first I went in and turned off a lot of autostart cruft - but after doing that I rebooted and it still didnt fix it until the hard reset.
- noxer 5y agoIts name is simply "Desktop Window Manager" but the process is dwm.exe the file is under \Windows\system32\dwm.exe Its defensively there without it there would be no desktop environment visible.
- samstave 5y agoAh - I am an ideout. I was looking for "DWM.EXE" in Here: https://i.imgur.com/qz53ome.png https://i.imgur.com/qz53ome.png And as you can see, I didnt equate the two. --- An aside: this really reveals how much knowledge in one's field disappears over the years... I have been a windows admin and everything since windows 3.1....... etc. But when youre doing other things years after that, on the 'meta' levels, if you will.... christ - I used to bullseye Exchange DB Corruption in my IBM T42 back home. They're not much bigger than a couple hundred gigs.