Overclock.net › Forums › Graphics Cards › NVIDIA › NVIDIA Drivers and Overclocking Software › Cannot Get NVIDIA Control Panel To Open
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Cannot Get NVIDIA Control Panel To Open

post #1 of 3
Thread Starter 
As the title states, whether I use the tray icon, right click option, or go to where the file is stored and try and open it I cannot. It will spin the circle showing its trying to do something but nothing will appear. If I open task manager I can actually see that it does add a service "nvcplui.exe" NVIDIA Control Panel Application. If I try and open it a second time, it creates another entry there but no window, nothing appears when I alt tab through things, and nothing in the applications tab of the task manager.

I have a GeForce 670 and I have already reinstalled the latest drivers from the website. I even did a complete uninstall of the previous driver and used Driver Cleaner Pro to remove it completely in safe mode, then reinstalled it and still I cannot open it.

So, anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work?

On a semi related note, how neccesary is it that I have this working? Will it impact much of anything to not be able to access it? I don't want to, but I will reinstall windows and spend hours and hours reconfiguring this computer to how it is now if having it will impact playing games and such, but if there are other ways to get by without it I can manage.
post #2 of 3
Thread Starter 
So, this got kind of weirder. I found that if I try and open the control panel, then run Heaven Benchmark, when the Heaven is finished there will be the control panel greeting me back on my desktop. If I close it and try and open it again it won't appear and I'll have to run Heaven again...what the hell? I would prefer not to have to run Heaven if I want to access the control panel, but I'll manage if I have to.

It just seems weird that it is doing this, as if it is open all along but it takes a program running like Heaven to make it visible or something.
post #3 of 3
Same problem here. I'm on windows 8 though.
Main rig
(14 items)
 
  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
2500k 4.8ghz 1.38v Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H Gigabyte 7950 Windforce Crossfire 16GB G.skill ripjaw 
Hard DriveCoolingOSMonitor
2x wd 640gb 1x intel 520 SSD Silver Arrow Win7 SA27950D, ACER21.3 
KeyboardPowerMouse
das ultimate 850tx G500 
  hide details  
Reply
Main rig
(14 items)
 
  
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
2500k 4.8ghz 1.38v Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H Gigabyte 7950 Windforce Crossfire 16GB G.skill ripjaw 
Hard DriveCoolingOSMonitor
2x wd 640gb 1x intel 520 SSD Silver Arrow Win7 SA27950D, ACER21.3 
KeyboardPowerMouse
das ultimate 850tx G500 
  hide details  
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
Overclock.net › Forums › Graphics Cards › NVIDIA › NVIDIA Drivers and Overclocking Software › Cannot Get NVIDIA Control Panel To Open