What is the "dwm.exe" ? Variant 15263181

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:
6.2.9200.16420
MD5:
d9148c08816acefebbf2970135975b8c
SHA1:
35770a0f5b28e5cc052e36655b486955108de79a
SHA256:
7b64ab2fbc180e092b184029dbc16aac65214f52e815626cae342d169a467ab7
Size:
89600
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
Windows Defender2016-09-05 01:47:46
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 9.0.386.12016-09-04 19:57:07
Kaspersky Internet Security2016-09-04 17:50:50
360 Total Security2016-09-03 22:33:49
Avast Antivirus2016-08-31 14:41:29
Kingsoft Antivirus System Defense2016-08-31 13:12:16
Bitdefender Antivirus Free Antimalware2016-08-30 04:25:05
avast! Antivirus2016-08-29 14:22:30
Immunet 32016-08-28 14:17:39
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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: 14540090)

    "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