How would I fix Windows Ink consistently crashing and sometimes causing a BSOD?

Question

Whenever I write anything into the Touch Keyboard using handwriting or write anything into OneNote for Windows 10 I can't see the stroke until I lift my pen, and if I leave my pen down for too long, my GPU spikes to 100% usage and dwm.exe crashes.

I have ran sfc /SCANNOW with it detecting and fixing some unknown problems with no change in behaviour.

I am running Windows 10 Pro on a Lenovo ThinkPad L14 Gen 1 with an AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4450U with Radeon Graphics if that helps.

Answer 1

Hello

I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing these issues. Here are some potential solutions based on the problems you’ve described:

 

1. Windows Ink Crashing and BSOD:

You could try to turn off Windows Ink in the OS settings.

Another option is to launch PowerShell and run the following commands:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml"}

After running these commands, restart your system.

 

2. Touch Keyboard Handwriting Stroke Not Visible:

You could try restarting the ‘Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service’. Press the Windows key and R together to open the Run dialog box, type services.msc and hit enter. Scroll down to ‘Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service’, right-click it and select Stop. Then right-click on it again and start the service.

 

3. GPU Spikes to 100% Usage and dwm.exe Crashes:

You could try updating your Windows and graphics card drivers.

Another option is to disable ‘Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling’ in your graphics card settings.

If these don’t work, you could try changing the Desktop Window Manager’s priority to low, or running a full virus scan on your PC.

 

4. sfc /SCANNOW Detected and Fixed Some Unknown Problems But No Change in Behaviour:

You could try running the DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) tool before running the System File Checker (sfc). Open Command Prompt and type: Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and hit Enter. After this process is complete, reboot your PC and then try running sfc /scannow again.