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A fresh wordpress also shows the same warning. Same php version (8.5.1).
It shows only as a warning, it says is an optional component, I guess it’s nothing serious. But I was curious and looked up the error in the forum and found this thread.
I tested on Windows 11 but I’m still not seeing the same warnings. Could you click the drop down menu here and then Download Local Logs and share that zip with us?
Thanks for the reports and for sharing your logs — that was a big help in narrowing this down. We reproduced the issue as occurring only under Apache and found some errors in the PHP error log pointing to a problem with how the PHP environment is loading the imagick dll. I’ve added a ticket to take a closer look and will update this thread as we know more!
# c:/Users/my-user/Local Sites/imagick-qa/logs/php
[05-Oct-2026 14:40:37 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_imagick.dll' (tried: C:/Users/WPEUser/AppData/Roaming/Local/lightning-services/php-8.2.29+0/bin/win64/ext\php_imagick.dll (The specified module could not be found), C:/Users/WPEUser/AppData/Roaming/Local/lightning-services/php-8.2.29+0/bin/win64/ext\php_php_imagick.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0
