I hoard my resources and hate the idea that something that doesn't need to be running, is running. In WinXP I was all over Black Viper, until I discovered that he really didn't research, really didn't know what he was talking about, in fact I think I spent more time investigating whether or not a Service was necessary than he did. Sometimes he said it wasn't necessary for most Users and it was, and sometimes he said he didn't know when the consequences of turning something off were pretty immediate and pretty clear. Anyways, it's Windows 7, and WAY more complex and I just don't have the "oomph" anymore to fiddle and tweak, but lately I've been experimenting with Process Explorer and there's 3 different things running labeld "NVIDIA" and they are ALL bugging me as I suspect I don't need any of them, but I'm checking here in order to find out for certain. Yes, I KNOW I can just "suspend" or "kill" them, but I want to know what it is that I'm suspending and/or killing, why it's there in the 1st place and what might not be working in the future if I turn them off. My system is a bit buggy, I suspect a hardware issue (video), but cannot say for certain. So I don't want to just assume that because the system doesn't BSOD or something similarly dramatic, that means that NOTHING happened, because if something odd happens the next day, I'll wonder if it's because I disabled one (or all) of the NVIDIA softwares. The skinny image below is a clickable link showing a screenshot: Note that there are two instances of "nvvsvc.exe".
Disabling the "Nvidia Display Driver Service" in Services should stop the rest from running, it also stops the Nvidia Control Panel from showing up on the desktop context menu. NVXDSync is used by the nvidia control panel and NVAPI to synchronize changes from other apps. If you don't use them, you can stop them. Just make sure you have the latest drivers, not sure about all older drivers. If you have errors later, re-enable, but I don't see that as an issue.
Thanks for the response. I turned all three of those off last night, it's been 24 hours and I see no change or difference in performance. I don't use anything to do with video. I regard the video card like the hard drive. Work silent and invisible, so that I don't even know it's there. I suspect a lot of the video stuff (nvidia and ati) is just advertising; a pretext to get their name and their logo into your awareness as often as possible.
If scanning right now via Microsoft's hiding tool, it finds both Microsoft Silverlight (KB3056819) and 'NVIDIA driver update for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970'. However, Windows Update does not find them even though they are not hidden. Driver updates are not disabled in settings, the 'Give me updates for other Microsoft products' is on, and the group policy of allowing Recommended Updates is also on. The Silverlight issue has been there from day 1 - the tool always found it, but WU never actually installed it. What I find interesting is that now an NVIDIA driver is available but not being downloaded. Since I have 353.62 installed, it's probably a newer version that is exclusive to WU. Any way to find the .cab link for it or something similar? force it to download?
Yeah I spent like 5 mins searching for that thread until I finally gave up and created on Then a mode edited the title and added the prefix [Discussion] so I guess they approve the thread.
I not recommend to disable or remove it since you want good drivers and sending meta-data doesn't really compromise anything. You also not need to touch anything in the folder, after the installation you simply can go to the task schedule and disable the task, which would be the better option, because if you remove something it gets overwritten the next time. Disabling it will not be changed after a new driver update as long you not delete the tasks. Or simply block Code: C:\program files (x86)\nvidia corporation\update core\nvtmrep.exe The thing is telemetry task never gets in usage as long certain things not happend, e.g. GeForce Experience must be installed and used. Otherwise the .exe never does anything.