Yeah, I think it must be a latent problem in DWM itself.

Nothing at all was logged in the Event Viewer this time.

-Noel

so maybe minidump.dmp was generated?

Nope, not in the folder where DWMGlass.dll is installed anyway... In fact, I just searched my entire system volume with grepWin... No minidump.dmp is to be found anywhere..

There's just no additional information on these restarts to be found anywhere, and from the looks of your log something is just restarting DWM for no known reason.

-Noel

Nope, not in the folder where DWMGlass.dll is installed anyway... In fact, I just searched my entire system volume with grepWin... No minidump.dmp is to be found anywhere..

There's just no additional information on these restarts to be found anywhere, and from the looks of your log something is just restarting DWM for no known reason.

-Noel

Are you sure iw was even restarted? Maybe just the cmd window was restored... It'd be good to put some script/miniapp to record the PID of the dwm.exe every time it's changed and at what exact time, to get the action straight what's happening

That's all in BigMuscle's log already, which shows that it definitely restarted.

-Noel

customthemereflection makes it restart then it goes to the lockscreen

customthemereflection makes it restart then it goes to the lockscreen

What is your screen resolution and what reflection image did you use?

1080p and I cropped out the Windows 7

it doesn't work on battery

it doesn't work on battery

Did you created the dword value "DisableGlassOnBattery" with data 0x0 here HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM ?

Edited December 7, 201312 yr by Tusticles

yes, but it changed nothing.

Edit:

my mistake. I had it at HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Edited December 7, 201312 yr by nico84

Had another DWM restart with the monitors in screen-saving power-down mode this morning...

This time it logged a couple of messages in the Application event log, which it doesn't always do:

• Error: The Desktop Window Manager has encountered a fatal error (0x8898008d)
• Information: The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x8898008d)
  

This was the detail for the Error:

Log Name:      ApplicationSource:        Desktop Window ManagerDate:          12/8/2013 11:16:50 AMEvent ID:      9020Task Category: NoneLevel:         ErrorKeywords:      ClassicUser:          N/AComputer:      NoelC4Description:The Desktop Window Manager has encountered a fatal error (0x8898008d)Event Xml:<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">  <System>    <Provider Name="Desktop Window Manager" />    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">9020</EventID>    <Level>2</Level>    <Task>0</Task>    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-12-08T16:16:50.000000000Z" />    <EventRecordID>4551</EventRecordID>    <Channel>Application</Channel>    <Computer>NoelC4</Computer>    <Security />  </System>  <EventData>    <Data>0x8898008d</Data>  </EventData></Event>

No minidump was created for the above.

Here's the section of pertinent Aero Glass debug.log. As you can see, there's no indication there that something went wrong, other than the "Uninstalling..." message.

[2013-12-08 09:49:01][Thread 0xABC] Hook (USER32.dll!SetWindowCompositionAttribute from explorer.exe) installed[2013-12-08 09:49:08][Thread 0x2A8] Message 0xC16E, wparam = 13, lparam = 0[2013-12-08 09:49:13][Thread 0x180C] Hook (USER32.dll!SetWindowCompositionAttribute from explorer.exe) installed[2013-12-08 11:16:50][Thread 0x410] Uninstalling...[2013-12-08 11:16:51][Thread 0x1C3C] License file loaded[2013-12-08 11:16:51][Thread 0x1C3C] Machine ID: PHHPCCL3FHOH5LOSDCDNL7MCGVTLO335ITLDP2PQ4LOGYZUQ[2013-12-08 11:16:51][Thread 0x1C3C] Hook (USER32.dll!CreateWindowExW from dwm.exe) installed[2013-12-08 11:16:51][Thread 0x1C3C] Hook (USER32.dll!DrawTextW from udwm.dll) installed

The only additional information I can add is this:

In this case, and possibly many/most of the others, I had left the Pandora web site playing music. Pandora's site runs with Adobe Flash. Could flash be doing odd things to the DWM while the monitors are off? Can't say.

-Noel

NoelC test it tonight by using a pandora client such as Elpis, see if dwm crashes or not, i bet it doesn't.

Aero Glass RC1 worked for me on a fresh install of Win8.1 RTM.

But the first time I went to Windows Update and installed updates and rebooted, it broke - dwmcore.pdb is mismatched and so was udwm.pdb. It only accepted dwm.pdb.

Aero Glass RC1 worked for me on a fresh install of Win8.1 RTM. But the first time I went to Windows Update and installed updates and rebooted, it broke - dwmcore.pdb is mismatched and so was udwm.pdb. It only accepted dwm.pdb.

do you have a key for it? if you do, just delete the symbols and restart it, it will download the newer ones that you need