High DWM.exe on headless Windows 10 Pro 1903

Server Version#: 1.16.3.1402

First off, Plex is not the issue here. However I know a lot of people that have a headless Windows 10 machine as their Plex server, while using Remote Desktop to log in to the server from now and then. I noticed that of late my server was making more noise that normal. My server is water cooled and normally made very little sound. Long story short, when I would remote into that machine the fans would go to normal levels. However as soon as I closed the remote session the fan would speed up. After some detective work I found out that DWM.exe was the issue. Finally after a long time Google searching I find this link DWM.exe High CPU. After implementing the change I can confirm that this fixed my issue. Just trying to spread the word.

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