Un Install Programs

I have Win10 and an NVIDIA Discrete Graphics Card.

If I go into Ad Remove Programs I see
NVIDIA Graphics Card Driver 442.23 so this is the Driver for my Video Card..Then I see

NVIDIA GeForce Experience 3.20.1.57
can I remove this or is this part of the Video Cards Driver?

 

How did biferi ever become a "First Sargent"? Blind in one eye, can't see out of the other, can't spell, can't or won't use a spell checker, doesn't understand correct punctuation, wants all the latest and greatest software and OS's without understanding them, can't or won't read the manuals, comes whining to MG's for help and refuses or cannot comprehend offered instructions.

I give up!!!!

 

On W7 you can certainly uncheck the installation of the bloatware GeForce Experience. All I use are the base video drivers + PhysX, when gaming there's only one nVidia driver loading, TaskMan shows no nVidia tasks or Services running.

Can't say for sure what's possible to remove in W10, esp. as MS+nVidia are moving to some fancy 2x different driver package choices, maybe there's some details on what can be stripped out (and how) on GHacks or reddit?

 

As if each driver update is better than the previous one for all usage scenarios.

Telemetry/fine tuning/tweaking/Shadowplay/Ansel/Freestyle vs. 120MB download + 500MB extracted + whatever extra when installed. Does it auto-remove the previous extracted versions? Not last time I checked.

For me, that's bloatware.

 

Hilarious Tim, 120MB download to install 20MB, yeah right .

Maybe after someone like me has gone through the H/SDD with a fine toothed comb and manually ripped out/deleted everything that really isn't needed.

Current driver download runs at 560+MB for W7x64 for my 10-series, so the running total for nVidia stuff must be around 1GB once expanded/ installed, likely closer to 2GB.

Oh, the 20MB minimum might have referred to the ancient hardware that Experience can only download drivers for:
GeForce 300, 200, 100, 9, 8
GeForce 300M, 200M, 100M, 9M, 8M
Though that estimate may be from years ago.

Still, that adds up to 120MB + 2oMB minimum, 'cos it dun cleanup after itself.

(+w/e the default drivers install is and the result of extracting all nnn+Mb of it first.)

 

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/nvidia_geforce_experience.html Size: 119.1 MB
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/nvidia_geforce_for_windows_10.html Size: 562 MB

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/nvslimmer.html Size: 791 KB
NVSlimmer is a freeware tool to remove and customize included programs and settings bundled with your NVIDIA driver package.

The NVIDIA driver package is now over 500MB for Windows 10 64-Bit. With this comes a lot of bloat.

For example, you can remove GeForce Experience, nView, Telemetry, and more. Best of all, you can actually (finally) strip your driver's package back down to a driver's only package, something we find sorely lacking for a company making video cards for gaming.

NVSLimmer is portable, so all you need to do is extract and run NVSlimmer.exe, click load, and find the latest driver package you downloaded.

Once you have checked and unchecked whatever you like, you can repackage the drivers or merely apply and or install.

One (obvious?) downside is that you'll need to repeat this step the next time the driver's update. Missing from this application is the ability to export and import your settings to make this faster. If anything, this is a relatively large oversight we hope to see addressed in future versions. Otherwise, while this is excellent for mass deployment, it's a lot of time to spend every time NVIDIA updates their drivers.

Even with that shortcoming, we don't know of any other app that allows you to finally strip down this embarrassingly large driver package to something most gamers will find useful.

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