topic What is DWM.EXE? in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12400#M69676 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello.Does anybody know what dwm.exe is and why it's using 50MB of Ram memory?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:08:08 GMT nickorfas 2007-08-25T16:08:08Z What is DWM.EXE? https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12400#M69676 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello.Does anybody know what dwm.exe is and why it's using 50MB of Ram memory?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:08:08 GMT https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12400#M69676 nickorfas 2007-08-25T16:08:08Z Re: What is DWM.EXE? https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12402#M69677 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi nickorfas,<BR /><BR />It is the Desktop Windows Manager and runs the 'Glass' Aero effects in Vista.<BR /><BR />You could turn off Aero but this rather defeats what is probably the biggest advantage of having Vista installed!!<BR /><BR />Keep the number of open screens to the minimum.<BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.si/html/@8A5BDCECEE2E5AB683F2BDAA500F2036/images/smilies/035.png" alt=":slight_frown:" title=":slight_frown:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:23:01 GMT https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12402#M69677 Blencogo 2007-08-25T16:23:01Z Re: What is DWM.EXE? https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12404#M69678 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you for the explanation.The thing is that i just bought a vaio fz19vn with windows vista business and when it starts up it's using 900MB RAM without anything else running.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:53:11 GMT https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12404#M69678 nickorfas 2007-08-26T08:53:11Z Re: What is DWM.EXE? https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12406#M69679 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm afraid that is just Vista!<BR /><BR />About 45% RAM usage is not unusual but with 2048MB installed, you should be OK for RAM.<BR /><BR /> <img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.si/html/@0248C33DDCF34AA61B8F8F33F5AFA5BE/images/smilies/013.png" alt=":wink:" title=":wink:" /><BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:28:12 GMT https://community.sony.si/t5/pcs-accessories/what-is-dwm-exe/m-p/12406#M69679 Blencogo 2007-08-26T09:28:12Z