Problems with DWN crashed in Windows 10 & 11 Guest

[FloydAtProwave]

Recently, the guest machine's DWN crashed so frequently that I have to give up and worked in host machine. I moved it to another hard disk, downgrade VMWare Workstation Pro version (16.2.4 --> 16.1.0) without luck. The event viewer shows the following error

Faulting application name: dwm.exe, version: 10.0.19041.746, time stamp: 0x6be51595
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.19041.1889, time stamp: 0xe9ede6d6
Exception code: 0x8898009b
Fault offset: 0x000000000010fb62
Faulting process id: 0x2bc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d8d9f5a470c718
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\dwm.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 63532507-6f87-4edb-9026-0bcbe9d65baf
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Any suggestion?

[javcz]

Same problem here. Tried to return to older vmw workstation, return to old working snapshot, even installed a clean guest ... the same issue. Two notebooks (different vendors) currently affected. They both have NVIDIA graphic adapters (this seems to be linked to display subsystem). Disabling 3D acceleration in virtual graphics settings does not help. The only way I can use VM now is to run it in background and connect by RDP. Only Windows guests seems to be affected, Debian runs without problems. 

[james3126]

I think I'm going to borrow your method and use RDP too. It is still crashing at regular intervals, and I find after 7-8 back-to-back crashes every couple of seconds, it kills my session and drops me back to the login screen. I keep losing all my work.

Hopefully RDP can stop this from happening.

[xenio]

same thing here my host is Lenovo ThinkPad P15v running Windows 10 21H2

12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H 2.30 GHz

my guest is Windows 11 latest version.

I cannot work, the dwm contiously crashes. 

[xenio]

see also here: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/DWM-fault-in-Windows-VMs/td-p/2931953