Comments on: Remove NVIDIA Control Panel from Desktop Right-Click Menu

By: me

me — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:32:16 +0000

why not just unregister the dll?

regsvr32 /u nvcpl.dll

By: Thanks for the tip

Thanks for the tip — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:08:20 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I somehow ended up with two entries for the Control Panel in my desktop context menu (from playing with beta drivers, I reckon) and this helped me find the rogue registry entry and kill it. It was in:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\NvContextMenu]

in case anyone else ends up with this sort of rougue double entry!

By: Ted Creagh

Ted Creagh — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:31:28 +0000

I have a GeForce 8800 GTX video card and everytime I try to open the “nVidia Control Panel” to adjust the card settings the Control Panel will not open…says it’s encountered a problem (2.2.300.00) and must close…it’s an application error.

Any suggestions???

By: takis

takis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:20:25 +0000

A great application…Thanks!!!

By: Ike

Ike — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:42:28 +0000

Any chance you could cover the program, Nirsoft ShellExView?

Seems like a great utility, but I’d like to know how the geek-man uses it!

By: Ruzzel.S

Ruzzel.S — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:17:22 +0000

Now how to do this with Ati’s Catalyst…

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:09:03 +0000

Thanks for the tip! That’s been annoying me for awhile. In my NVIDIA Control Panel there was no View \ Add Desktop Context Menu at all so I had to do the registry hack. So they might have gotten rid of that option.