What is the "dwm.exe" ? Variant 12883999

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:
6.2.9200.16384
MD5:
ec29ca52113ef803339b1680593390f0
SHA1:
8c8a73e2f976aa7ed7a7f4e8218fe5db91ac63f2
SHA256:
5016719f066357a8807c6744c8cda1b8caff528847c59f4ea38b35595b624a39
Size:
117760
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows XP
Occurence:
High oc2

System Explorer Community Antivirus Report

This file was checked and tolerated by following antivirus shields :
Antivirus NameLatest Toleration
Avast Antivirus2016-09-05 21:52:02
Windows Defender2016-09-05 16:23:14
Trend Micro Maximum Security2016-09-05 14:28:36
Avira Antivirus2016-09-04 18:09:04
avast! Antivirus2016-09-02 17:18:25
AVG Internet Security2016-09-02 16:29:39
ESET Smart Security 6.02016-08-31 09:06:24
Norton Internet Security2016-08-29 19:26:05
360 Total Security2016-08-27 20:59:54
Kaspersky Internet Security2016-08-26 20:23:03
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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 for file C:\Windows\System32\dwm.exe (Variant: 12229004)

    "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