Comments on: What is dwm.exe And Why Is It Running?

By: elliot.taylor381

elliot.taylor381 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:21:40 +0000

dwm.exe is ace, but does it work in microsoft 7?

By: Drogba

Drogba — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:57:35 +0000

this is crazy, my dwm.exe went from 40,000k to 1,168k when i changed the theme to vista basic…cant believe it. Thanks!!

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:12:34 +0000

That was the best explination on anything. Very nice in explaining the benifits and those ways around adjusting for it. I agree with most of the people who would turn it down or off for the sake of speed. I can see why some people would the visuals are nice, but as you had said, if you are running a large full screen game, why not turn off the visual service? I guess in a sense explorer is running but I often turn that off too
Anyways, nice work.
@Brian R
This really isn’t the place for posting a question, but you have adware/spyware on your computer. There are some that when you run IE it will launch another hidden IE for ads though some will also do this when you boot or periodically (sp?) The most common sense thing to do is to just download a spyware cleaner such as Spybot: Search and Destroy or Ad-Aware. Otherwise, you want to check what is set to boot on start-up (Run>MSConfig) make sure you know what is booting and while you are at it, turn off things that you don’t need booting then check your start-up services and see if any of those are it. You can also get a program to monitor your on-line traffic and/or application traffic to eliminate it. Easiest thing to do though, is run Spybot or Ad-aware.

By: Brian R

Brian R — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:26:03 +0000

I think I have a virus on my new computer. I am running Windows Vista 64bit and randomly there will be the sound of commercials playing on my computer. When I open the task manager, I see that the Internet Explorer is opened 58 times! Usually I close all of the IE’s but then they pop up again later. What should I do?

By: Villads

Villads — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:14:50 +0000

Rohit wrote this and I fully agree.
Nice post !

I like the way you present things in an interesting way!
I’m impressed!

To you poore peoble with Wista problems.Look forward to Win 7.
I think you will find it much better.
Rigth now it runs with 3 browers with lots of windows open,thunderbird email klient,Photoshop, taskmanager and controlpanel at 12,5mb
Thats seems to be alright.

By: barry

barry — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:41:12 +0000

thank you – have freed up vital memory

By: Mark Magill

Mark Magill — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:16:24 +0000

JAMIE wrote, “Since you knew how to increase the speed by adjusting the use of Vista can you tell me what the heck the code 80070490 is when attempting to update Vista”

I found an MS article about this that says it can be caused by a damaged .NET component, and gives a link to a clean-up utility to fix it. Here’s the article:

http://www.microsoft.com/commu.....12&p=1

Thanks, Geek – Great job on the site. You’re in my permanent bookmarks list..

Mark Magill

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:10:05 +0000

I meant!

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:08:22 +0000

Thanks for the help?

By: arjan

arjan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:59:51 +0000

Great explanations! Thanks