What is the "dwm.exe" ? Variant 10115403

Our database contains 886 different files for filename dwm.exe but this page contains information about single file with specific attributes. If you want to see general information about the dwm.exe then visit General Information Page . You can also check most distributed file variants with name dwm.exe. This file belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and was developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This file has description Desktop Window Manager. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 1 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process dwm.exe.

dwm.exe Process
Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Desktop Window Manager
Version:
6.2.8400.0
MD5:
2711c93e3dea4170df4149f16cb80d16
SHA1:
b9c94bdbed5e30fd651c5ca8b0ffe31e78abeab6
SHA256:
315698440701dd5800f6e213f96503f0b7582b281ceafd326d24d7bff0e3b3c4
Size:
119808
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
High oc2

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
360 Total Security2016-08-28 23:44:17
Windows Defender2016-05-07 04:18:48
Avira Antivirus2015-05-23 03:27:23
avast! Antivirus2015-04-15 10:13:48
Avira Desktop2014-08-07 13:42:52
AVG Internet Security 20122014-07-16 20:18:14
ESET Smart Security 6.02013-08-22 17:15:19
AVG Internet Security 20132013-07-30 17:54:24
AVG AntiVirus Free Edition 20132013-06-24 15:07:44
Advanced SystemCare Ultimate2013-03-10 17:22:34
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Is the Process "dwm.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
100% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Our final rating for this file is Safe. Final rating is based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "dwm.exe" is used by Microsoft Windows System files. Many threats uses filenames of System Processes to camouflage itself. You should consider suspected any file which uses system filename and is not stored in system directory or has invalid file version information. Correct system file contains full file version information from Microsoft.

91% of reviewed files with different MD5 located in different directory are marked as Safe .

User Reviews of the "dwm.exe"

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne (Variant: 10115403)

    "The Desktop Window Manager is a Compositing window manager, each program has a buffer that it writes data to, the DWM then composites each program's buffer into a final image, compared to the stacking window manager in Windows XP and earlier (and Windows Vista and Windows 7 with Windows Aero disabled), which has each program writing to the same main buffer." - check more on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Window_Manager