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Desktop Window Manager

Desktop Window Manager (DWM, previously Desktop Compositing Engine or DCE in builds of pre-reset Windows Longhorn) is the compositing window manager in Microsoft Windows since Windows Vista that enables the use of hardware acceleration to render the graphical user interface of Windows.

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Architecture

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Hardware requirements

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Redirection

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Developer experience

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Developer
Microsoft
Operating system
Microsoft Windows
Release
November 30, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-30)
Service name
UxSms[note 1]

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Architecture

Redirection

Hardware requirements

Developer experience

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Desktop Window Manager

Nodes53
Edges52
Triples34
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037736
Components1

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Desktop Window Manager

Top relations

related to Architecture · 13
Desktop Window Manager → By, CPU, DWM, GDI, RAM, The Desktop Window Manager, This, Under Windows, WDDM, Windows, Windows Aero, Windows Vista, Windows XP
related to External links · 4
Desktop Window Manager → Desktop Window ManagerAPIs, Desktop Window ManagerUsing, DWM, DWM APIsWhat
related to Developer experience · 2
Desktop Window Manager → Developer, Windows SDK
Developer · 1
Desktop Window Manager → Microsoft
Operating system · 1
Desktop Window Manager → Microsoft Windows
Release · 1
Desktop Window Manager → November 30, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-30)
Service name · 1
Desktop Window Manager → UxSms[note 1]
is a · 1
Desktop Window Manager → compositing window manager

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windows dwm window desktop directx gdi used buffer applications rendering system manager uses surface memory graphics vista render hardware video

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Desktop Window ManagerDeveloperMicrosoft1.00infobox
Desktop Window ManagerOperating systemMicrosoft Windows1.00infobox
Desktop Window ManagerReleaseNovember 30, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-30)1.00infobox
Desktop Window ManagerService nameUxSms[note 1]1.00infobox
Desktop Window Manageris acompositing window manager0.90text
transparencyinstance ofwhich allowed for effects0.80text
3D window switchinginstance ofwhich allowed for effects0.80text
moreinstance ofwhich allowed for effects0.80text
per-pixel transparencyinstance ofThis is used to implement effects0.80text
culling to improve performanceinstance ofThe compositing engine uses optimizations0.80text
as well as not redrawing areas that have not changedinstance ofThe compositing engine uses optimizations0.80text
1507instance ofStarting up Windows without DWM will not work because the default lock screen requires DWM unlike the fallback lockscreen that appears as a command line interface program when W…0.80text

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