Botched up drywall repair
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Firstly to address the reason of continuous cracking. It's really a no brainer, plasterboard or in American speech drywall 99% of the time will have a joint below and or above doors windows and any other penetrations. This is to limit wastage and costs its what rough tradies do. If there has to be a butt joint in the wall it should not be directly below or above doors or windows as this is a weak spot and under stress from opening and shutting off doors or windows. Now to solve the problem completely and having the confidence of it not returning is to remove plasterboard and resheet without having a butt joint. Cut around the window jamb in one piece.. if you want to keep patching then you are going to end up with a massive speed hump and use tape making sure it's paper tape. Well that's my lowdown on your cracked drywall. Btw I'm a plasterer from Sydney Australia with 21 years experience.