Owners of Nvidia graphics cards can increase performance by several percent. What NVIDIA processes are responsible for and which ones can be disabled Nvidia network service what it does

Today we will talk about the Nvidia Web Helper.exe utility program, which produces many system errors: “There is no disk in the device. Insert the disk into device D" and "Cannot start, msvcr120.dll is missing from the computer." We will tell you how to fix these problems.

What is this program

Nvidia Web Helper.exe is a helper utility (optional) that is responsible for updating Geforce Experience, as well as sending messages about critical failures in the program. The Web Helper itself, as well as problems with it, appeared after the autumn NGE updates in 2016. Users reacted coolly to the software due to its background activity in the system.

Nvidia Web Helper.exe - critical MSVCR120.dll error

Critical error MSVCR120.dll

So, let's look at the first failure, which most often happens when booting a computer. The user receives a notification about the missing library MSVCR120.dll. This component may be missing for several reasons: the corresponding Microsoft Visual C++ package is not installed in Windows, the library itself is damaged or blocked (after the anti-virus), or the path to the folder with the library is lost or changed. We correct it point by point:

"Disk is missing" solution

No less often, a message appears about NWH.exe problems with drive D. Most often, this failure appears when working with a card reader in Windows, or more precisely due to a driver conflict.

In this case, there are also several solutions.

Conclusion

That's all. These tips clearly show how to fix these failures. If you still have questions, describe them in the comments. If you have your own solution, then please tell us about them in the same comments.

Hello friends Let's talk today about processes, or to be more precise, about one process - NvBackend.exe, what is it, and is it a virus by chance? This process belongs to NVIDIA, its full name is NVIDIA GeForce Experience Backend. This is a program that looks at what games you have installed and selects the optimal settings for them from its database.

That is, it’s something like Raptr, which I wrote about. Only this is from NVIDIA, however, nothing bad would happen, but sometimes the NvBackend.exe process loads the computer, and for some it even often

Why does NvBackend.exe load my computer and how to disable it? Look, at the beginning I wrote that the program checks what games there are, so the reason is that it does this so often that it loads the computer. And if you consider that in the folders in which it looks for games (and these are Program Files) there are not only games, but also programs, including large programs, then this, of course, can take a fair amount of CPU time.

There is a lot of advice on this matter on the Internet, in terms of how to disable NvBackend.exe, how to remove it and all that. By the way - yes, you can delete it through the Programs and Features icon from the Control Panel if you decide to delete it

This is how the NvBackend.exe process loads the computer, which would be pretty cool to say, wouldn’t it:

And if you want to leave the program, here's what you need to do. Launch the GeForce Experience Backend program and look, there will be a checkmark at the bottom about automatically checking games on your PC, so uncheck it:

That's all, you see how simple it is No, well, I don't mind, if you want, you can also press Win + R, write msconfig there and click OK, and then in the window that appears, on the Startup tab, uncheck GeForce Experience so that it does not start at all when you turn on the computer.

So, regarding the unchecked box for checking games, if you unchecked it, but the functionality of the GeForce Experience program is important to you, then after installing a new game, you can go into the program and click the Check Now button. Then the check will be on demand, which is called:

If you set up the games yourself, then you don’t need to go into the program at all, just let it hang, unless of course it’s loading your computer, otherwise it’s time to tear it down

Another recipe for getting rid of the NvBackend.exe process without uninstalling the program itself. Look, do you see the process? It is the NvBackend.exe process on the Details tab, or on the one where they are all displayed in the manager, so right-click on it and select the location. Now the folder with the file of this process has opened - great. Shut down the process itself in the dispatcher. But the file in the open folder - rename it, for example, to NvBackend.exe_, and what did we do with this? We did not delete the file itself, we did not remove the program, but you will no longer see the NvBackend.exe process in the manager

I will also say that it is not worth deleting the folder where the NvBackend.exe file is located - either remove the program in a civilized way through the Programs and Features window, or do as I wrote above, that is, rename the file.

But what to do if after all the actions the load has not decreased? You know, I don’t want to upset you, but I have suspicions that you have a virus. If you agree with me, then do this - check your computer with free utilities such as and. The first will be checked for common but dangerous viruses, and the second will be a specialist in advertising viruses or programs. In general, if you have time, check it out, this is my advice.

It seems like I wrote everything, now you know what the NvBackend.exe process is and what to do if it loads the processor, all that remains is to wish you good luck!

Gamers and computer enthusiasts, even those with the most powerful components possible, will often find themselves squeezing the frames out of them. One Reddit user shared a way by which the number of frames per second produced by Nvidia video cards can be increased by 3-5%.

A user with the nickname lhikary noticed that his video card is trying to stream games to the Nvidia Shield game console, which he, like the vast majority of users, does not have. This is done by a Windows service called Nvidia Streaming, which automatically starts when the operating system boots.

If you don’t have a set-top box, this service can be disabled. To do this, select “Run” from the Start menu and enter services.msc to open the services window. If there is NVIDIA Streamer Service in the list of services, open it and stop it, and then select the startup type “Disabled”. Next, we apply the new settings and restart the computer, after which you can check whether the service has turned off.

It should be borne in mind that the same service is needed for the ShadowPlay technology, which records gameplay in Full HD resolution. If you update your graphics drivers, you may need to repeat the process of disabling the service.

Installing Nvidia graphics drivers on Windows, including using NVIDIA GeForce Experience, also adds a telemetry service and several diagnostic data transfer tasks.

To stop sending Nvidia telemetry data, you typically need to disable three tasks in Windows Task Scheduler to block the collection and transmission of information.

This process must be repeated after updating the drivers, because in this case the default settings are restored.

How to disable Nvidia telemetry

Instead of performing all the manipulations manually, you can use the free Disable Nvidia Telemetry program. It runs on Windows systems and automates the process of disabling telemetry transmission. The source code of the program is available for inspection on GitHub.

The utility does not need to be installed; it can be launched from any location after unpacking the archive.

When launched, the application scans Nvidia telemetry services and related tasks and displays all detected objects in the main interface. The scan is performed almost instantly - as a result, you receive a list of services and tasks related to telemetry.

The program allows you to disable telemetry services and tasks. Simply check the boxes next to the appropriate components and click "disable selected telemetry" to apply the changes.

A "Restore Defaults" button is also available, which allows you to restore the original status of Nvidia jobs and services.

In addition, the Disable Nvidia Telemetry application offers to save a log file, which contains a record of all scanning events and changes in the state of telemetry components on a Windows computer.

Although you can use the program to automatically disable modules, the information in the log file will allow you to manually make changes to the system. The file displays a list of all services and tasks for collecting and transmitting Nvidia diagnostic data.

The main advantage of the program is its speed - all changes are applied in a matter of seconds, and you no longer need to manually disable it.

Telemetry is now generally everywhere. Microsoft somehow decided to stick it into Windows, it worked, and then other software developers, to the best of their ability and talent, also began to “telemeter”, if not everything in a row, then a lot. This will probably be of some benefit to some, but certainly not to everyone. Actually, this is why users often try to disable this telemetry as soon as it detects itself.

In turn, the developers are trying to make it behave as inconspicuously as possible. And they do it differently every time.

For example, nVidia recently hid telemetry among the drivers. Moreover, the user who somehow has to install these drivers has absolutely no opportunity to cancel the installation of telemetry software components.

By the way, not every user who has a computer with an nVidia video card knows that a certain program (and more than one), quietly installed on his own computer, then diligently monitors everything it needs, sending the collected data, unknown where and to whom.

Let's say, it is known that the nVidia telemetry service starts every time a user logs into the system from his account, also in automatic mode at least once a day.

To get more complete information about the activities of these types of programs, just open Task Scheduler Windows OS on your computer. There, in the form of a list of applications, you will discover many interesting and surprising things. But you can immediately turn off some of this.

In particular with the help Planner you can disable nVidia telemetry, which, if you have Windows 10, will be represented in the list by as many as three positions (tasks) out of 6 related to nVidia. Namely:

NvTmMon - nVidia Telemetry Monitor - starts C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core\NvTmMon.exe

NvTmRep - nVidia crash and Telemetry Reporter - starts C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core\NvTmRep.exe

NvTmRepOnLogon - nVidia Profile Updater - runs C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core\NvTmRep.exe - logon

The other three Nvidia jobs on the list are:

NvNodeLauncher — NVIDIA NvNode Launcher -> C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NvNode\nvnodejslauncher.exe
NvProfileUpdaterDaily — NVIDIA Profile Updater ->
NvProfileUpdaterOnLogon — NVIDIA Profile Updater -> C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Update Core\NvProfileUpdater64.exe

Disable nVidia telemetry on your computer via Scheduler can be done simply and without damage to both the system and the video card.

Select a name from the scheduler list NvTmMon, right-click on it and in the menu that appears, click “ Disable ". Thus, you block the task from completing. We turn it off in the same way NvTmRep And NvTmRepOnLogon and other discovered tasks that are clearly unnecessary.

And further: After the next update or reinstallation of nVidia drivers, disabled tasks (that is, telemetry) may turn on again. Therefore, after such events, it would be a good idea to check the Windows Scheduler list to see if there are any old or new surprises there. In addition, you can track and disable telemetry in time using special utilities like Autoruns .