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Windows Vista What is NVIDIA

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by yorkshire lass, 2008/07/07.

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    yorkshire lass

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    This will maybe seem like a very stupid question but what is NVIDIA which I have just discovered on my system? It appears in my start up list when I type in msconfig and when I went to the control panel I saw that it was not enabled so I enabled it with standard settings. Now I'm totally unsure if I have done the right thing! I'm sure that you folk will put me right! Thanks again in advance
     
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    nVidia - suppliers of motherboard chips and graphics chips. It sounds like you have an nVidia based graphics card and you probably enabled a tray icon or another graphics related applet from nVidia such as nVidia Control Panel or nVidia Desktop Manager. - harmless, but may use unnecessary RAM. :)
     
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    Thank you for that information. Do you think it wiould be wise to disable Navidia in the start up then?
     
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    Post the details of the nVidia startups first please.
     
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    I hope that i have done this right!
     
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    I have guests arriving shortly, but it would help if you would expand the startup item and command line columns and re-image - otherwise I am guessing :)

    Be back with you when my guests leave.
     
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    I haven't been able to expand the view so i have written them out for you; sorry, I'm not very good at this!

    NVIDIA CORPORATION Compatible Windows 2000 display driver version 163.69 rundle 32exec\windows system32 nvCpl.dllNVstartup

    NVIDIA CORPORATION driver helper service version 163.69 32\nvsvc.dllnvsvc start

    NVIDIA CORPORATION Media centre Library 32\nvMcTray Nvtaskbar.init


    I hope that this is ok; sorry to be such a pest.
     
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    PeteC

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    A Yorkshire Lass a pest - never :D

    The first two must run, the third .....

    NVIDIA CORPORATION Media centre Library 32\nvMcTray Nvtaskbar.init

    is not essential - puts an icon in the Notification area for the nVidia Media centre Library - whatever that is :)
     
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    Thanks again.

    Thank you Pete, you have put my mind at rest. It's great having someone to panic to!!:D
     
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