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Anyone know what this is on my Startup?

Posted: Fri May 11, 2001 12:40 am
by Juggernaut
I noticed that this is in my startup recently but I don't know what it is from. I did a virus scan but there's nothing.

I'm on Win2000 and this is in my HKLM, All Users, Run section

Name: NvCplDaemon

Path: RUNDLL32.EXE

Parameters: NvQTwk,NvCplDaemon initialize

TIA

Posted: Fri May 11, 2001 4:39 am
by Prey521
Hmm, well daemon means "server" and since you're on Win2K make sure that you have not enabled any of the IIS features as a service.

Posted: Fri May 11, 2001 6:36 am
by blebs
There both nVidia.dll's
Nvidia quick tweak for tweaking the ol video card and I can't remember what the cpl is!

Does Nvidia have a reason to connect to the net? :)

What its doing in your start-up, I have no idea. What Video Card do you have there?

[ 05-11-2001: Message edited by: blebs99 ]

Posted: Sat May 12, 2001 12:32 am
by Juggernaut
I have a Nvidia TNT 16MB (ouch, I know) and I just updated to the 12.00 drivers...I guess that's where it came from....I wonder why Nvidia needs something on the startup. Thanx for the posts.

I guess this is a little heads up then...if u install the 12.00 drivers (not sure about the other late ones) it puts something in u'r startup. I notice tho, that there are no additional processes running after startup and everything is acting the same.

Posted: Sat May 12, 2001 6:49 am
by blebs
I'm sure whatever it is doing is legit, I'm just curious as to why myself. They didn't say anything in the help files or FAQ's I presume? :)

Posted: Sat May 12, 2001 8:15 pm
by Juggernaut
of course not :) ...It hasn't tried to access the net yet...I will kick Nvidia's a$$ if it ever does :D

Posted: Mon May 14, 2001 8:56 am
by blebs
Nvcpl=nVidia control panel!

Duh, I'm slow as slow can be anymore.
Just thought you'd like to know the other portion. :D

Posted: Tue May 15, 2001 4:12 pm
by Juggernaut
thanx...the previous drivers I had didn't have anything on startup...ah well

Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 8:06 am
by keeper
You can disable it in startup & see what happens.
Or, block it with ZA so it can't access w/o your permission.