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Ben136
Jul 24, 2025Copper Contributor
Ghost windows appearing
Please see the image. What happens is that ghost windows appear on the screen. They have a title bar and border but no contents, and they remain on top of everything else. You cannot interact with th...
tuggeranong_booner
Jul 21, 2026Copper Contributor
So after a lot of looking around, the fix (for me) is to kill the DWM.exe process. This is the Desktop Window Manager, so it makes sense that this is the culprit! Can't explain WHY it does this, but killing the process definitely removes the frame/s!
I often have this issue with Autodesk 3dsMax, but I had it today with VideoLan Client Player v4 after I closed it.(apparently using it's normal named isn't allowed?)
I found the solution here, so I can't take credit for figuring it out;
https://superuser.com/questions/1894628/ghost-frame-remains-after-switching-monitors