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Are your drivers installing more than they need/should be?
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<blockquote data-quote="Danielx64" data-source="post: 731763" data-attributes="member: 60470"><p>So some of you have been looking at behaviours of antivirus software, firewalls general software like office right down to Android and their nasty apps. Something that I haven't seen on MT is drivers and the extra junk that they install.</p><p></p><p>Not long ago, I came across a post (Located here: <a href="https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-install-only-driver-nvidia-graphics-cards.htm" target="_blank">How To Install Only The Driver On Nvidia Graphics Cards</a> and <a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/07/nvidia-telemetry-tracking/" target="_blank">Disable Nvidia Telemetry tracking on Windows - gHacks Tech News</a>) that explains how to disable some of the telemetry junk that comes with Nvidia drivers. One of the things it said in that post is to look at "Task Scheduler" and remove a bunch of entries created at install time.</p><p></p><p>Further searching shows this: <a href="https://gist.github.com/CHEF-KOCH/489686c18b709f064be9eb5180880b9f/revisions" target="_blank">Build software better, together - nvidia.cmd</a> . Yes, that's right - more junk is installed even if you unselect the unwanted stuff while installing the Nvidia drivers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Danielx64, post: 731763, member: 60470"] So some of you have been looking at behaviours of antivirus software, firewalls general software like office right down to Android and their nasty apps. Something that I haven't seen on MT is drivers and the extra junk that they install. Not long ago, I came across a post (Located here: [URL='https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-install-only-driver-nvidia-graphics-cards.htm']How To Install Only The Driver On Nvidia Graphics Cards[/URL] and [URL='https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/07/nvidia-telemetry-tracking/']Disable Nvidia Telemetry tracking on Windows - gHacks Tech News[/URL]) that explains how to disable some of the telemetry junk that comes with Nvidia drivers. One of the things it said in that post is to look at "Task Scheduler" and remove a bunch of entries created at install time. Further searching shows this: [URL='https://gist.github.com/CHEF-KOCH/489686c18b709f064be9eb5180880b9f/revisions']Build software better, together - nvidia.cmd[/URL] . Yes, that's right - more junk is installed even if you unselect the unwanted stuff while installing the Nvidia drivers. [/QUOTE]
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