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Why is nwiz.exe started?
I have 2 Compaq Desktops
#1 Compaq Presario S3010CL-B (Sam's Club 7/3/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ #2 Compaq Presario S5000J (Compaq Direct 9/13/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Both use S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR video. While nosing around in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run entry in the registry, I found an entry for "nwiz.exe /installquiet /keeploaded /nodetect". I presume that those qualifiers explain why it does not show up in the active processes list. Google searches lead me to believe that this is an NVIDEA driver. I don't think I have any NVIDEA hardware. Does anyone know why it is being run? -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameLastNameATyahooDOTcom |
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Why? Not sure, but it does load just ahead of the nVIDIA manager on my
S5200CL. How? Via msconfig. Click on Start, Run and type msconfig then OK. You will see an entry for nwiz. You can try unchecking it. Oh, S3 is now owned by VIA/nVIDIA. HH "Ken Wampach" wrote in message ... I have 2 Compaq Desktops #1 Compaq Presario S3010CL-B (Sam's Club 7/3/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ #2 Compaq Presario S5000J (Compaq Direct 9/13/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Both use S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR video. While nosing around in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run entry in the registry, I found an entry for "nwiz.exe /installquiet /keeploaded /nodetect". I presume that those qualifiers explain why it does not show up in the active processes list. Google searches lead me to believe that this is an NVIDEA driver. I don't think I have any NVIDEA hardware. Does anyone know why it is being run? -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameLastNameATyahooDOTcom |
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It is an Nvidea driver thing. No you don't need it. The proper way
is to remove it in the registy. You can delete it with no reprecussions. "HH" wrote in message ... Why? Not sure, but it does load just ahead of the nVIDIA manager on my S5200CL. How? Via msconfig. Click on Start, Run and type msconfig then OK. You will see an entry for nwiz. You can try unchecking it. Oh, S3 is now owned by VIA/nVIDIA. HH "Ken Wampach" wrote in message ... I have 2 Compaq Desktops #1 Compaq Presario S3010CL-B (Sam's Club 7/3/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ #2 Compaq Presario S5000J (Compaq Direct 9/13/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Both use S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR video. While nosing around in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run entry in the registry, I found an entry for "nwiz.exe /installquiet /keeploaded /nodetect". I presume that those qualifiers explain why it does not show up in the active processes list. Google searches lead me to believe that this is an NVIDEA driver. I don't think I have any NVIDEA hardware. Does anyone know why it is being run? -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameLastNameATyahooDOTcom |
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