What is the "dwm.exe" ? Variant 10123491

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:
bb987f6d8feac5b807ecd4b90047f858
SHA1:
118e7095e5d5a3f4818fb4178fce38cb91785d99
SHA256:
9b7c1ca4c092604aa976cf990062d6557d9d22a796ba5d7fd72d08418a3a4f55
Size:
91648
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
Medium oc1

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
360 Total Security2016-07-12 20:53:39
McAfee Anti-Virus y Anti-Spyware2016-07-09 23:33:56
Windows Defender2016-05-05 20:43:34
avast! Antivirus2016-05-01 16:29:30
Avira Antivirus2015-11-17 19:43:31
Avira Desktop2015-06-22 11:25:43
Baidu Antivirus2015-04-16 04:34:57
PSafe Total2015-03-04 15:13:27
G Data InternetSecurity CBE2014-12-19 19:41:09
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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: 10123491)

    "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