Nvidia Driver 531.18 has broken the Control Panel.

[Iggy Wolf]

Every time I shut down my PC, when I start it up again next time, the control panel won't open until I restart the Nvidia Container LS service. Nvidia needs to get their ♥♥♥♥ together with their drivers. The last one I had, 518.46, would cause random BSODs. Not even sure which driver is safe right now to use without problems. If I wanted constant driver issues, I'd have an AMD card.

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Автор сообщения: Bad 💀 Motha

First off you don't ever need to go to Microsoft Store and install that. DCH Driver will install that all on it's[sic] own. You still have access to NVIDIA Control Panel by right clicking the Desktop; like we've had since forever.

You do not even have to go into Services and restart that. Simply bring up Task Manager > Details and force end any NVIDIA processes. Then right click the bare Desktop and because the right-click menu contains the NVIDIA Control Panel shortcut, it forces those services to restart anyways.

Doesn't the DCH package just request the Control Panel from the Microsoft Store? Perhaps I should have tried Repair and Reset before concluding this was the only way to fix it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well yes and no.
What will end up showing as "NVIDIA Control Panel" in Microsoft Store > Library for your system, really is just a shortcut to the real NVCP that is already on your system. Yes its pretty dumb. It's actually not an app from the app store, it just shows in that list.

Instead of a repair, just go to Device Manager and do Uninstall on the NVIDIA GPU. When it is done, just re-run the NVIDIA Driver Installer Package you downloaded. If you didn't use DDU then the package is still located C:\NVIDIA

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Автор сообщения: Bad 💀 Motha

Well yes and no.
What will end up showing as "NVIDIA Control Panel" in Microsoft Store > Library for your system, really is just a shortcut to the real NVCP that is already on your system. Yes its pretty dumb. It's actually not an app from the app store, it just shows in that list.

Instead of a repair, just go to Device Manager and do Uninstall on the NVIDIA GPU. When it is done, just re-run the NVIDIA Driver Installer Package you downloaded. If you didn't use DDU then the package is still located C:\NVIDIA

I just checked and it's located at C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\NVIDIACorp.NVIDIAControlPanel_8.1.963.0_x64__56jybvy8sckqj\nvcplui.exe on my system.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

And your point is?

Again it is simply a shortcut.

I know this because how is it I can run NVIDIA Control Panel when the PC is off-line and while it was off-line I did a complete wipe of EVERYTHING NVIDIA, including the app store via DDU in Safe Mode. Then rebooted and installed the NVIDIA Driver Package from NVIDIA.com

But the package already extracted onto said system. The wipe + install done entirely off-line.