This week nVidia released their 91.31 drivers. The drivers offer a totally changed UI, and supposedly offer performance improvements (and based on published benchmarks, they do). But when I installed the drivers on my non-SLI laptop, I kept getting the error: “SLI Multi-GPU Rendering has been disabled” every time I boot. Excuse me, I don’t have SLI, so stop bugging me.
The solution is: set the registry key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
“NvCplEnableMultiGPUConfigurationPage”=dword:0
Viola. But how they let this out into the field with this really annoying bug is beyond me.
Also, you can’t stop the System Tray icon from starting. You used to be able to shut this down from the View menu. If the nVidia Control Panel is running, though, it re-enables the app when it exits. So … I renamed nvmctray.dll in c:\Windows\System32 to nvmctray.dll.org. This is the DLL that runs the system tray icon. Next time it booted, the app wasn’t running. I then ran MSCONFIG and disabled the RUNDLL32 command that started nvmctray.dll. Reboot. No tray icon.
‘Course if I even run the nVidia Control Panel for any reason, I’ll have to do it all over again, but …
June 27, 2006 at 11:46 am
Or, you can disable balloon tips entirely:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer -> Advanced
Add a DWORD value, “EnableBalloonTips” and set its value to 0 . Restart. YAY, no more balloon tips
July 2, 2006 at 9:39 am
oh boy, this was starting to drive me batty, thanks for the tips but once I read your solution I thought of something else and yup it works.
Bring up control panel the normal way and check on classic view, then you have the settings control panel in the display properties advvanced section and now you can uncheck the box in tools section “Enalbe taskbar icon” and/or “Enable desktop context menu”, simpler, easier, faster, and safer with no registy hacks, of course not as much fun as poking around and taking up time to figure this out.
July 2, 2006 at 10:06 am
oops, sorry, the box keeps reticking itsel, I guess I’ll go the registry way.
July 2, 2006 at 11:25 am
ok, tried TechnologyExpert reg key and it doesn’t work for me, tried KlintorHignaki reg key and ballon still shows up.
Tried individually and in conjunction, removed keys.
used msconfig and unticked NvCpl and while it still loads the tray icon there is no balloon on boot up.
untick NvMcTray to stop the tray icon program from loading if you want to stop it all. No need to rename anything in my case.
I reversed all steps to recreate the balloon and no balloon pops up at all, maybe I broke it.
I reinstalled 91.31 drivers and balloon came back, just went direct to msconfig and unticked NvCpl and no more ballon. Based on prior results if you retick NvCpl at this point the balloon should still stay gone. And if you want the tray gone just untick NvMcTray as well.
Good Luck all.
July 10, 2006 at 6:31 pm
I’m also having this problem. Glad to know someone’s got a solution out there.
July 14, 2006 at 2:01 am
ITs got lotsa other problems too.
1)The Video & Television settings under the improved menu freeze my computer if clicked.
2)Moreover playing video files on Windows Media Player 10 freezes the pc, 6200 AGP series