Nvidia Taskbar Icon Pain

[Guest]

I upgraded my laptop from XP Media Centre to Vista (OEM version); I bought
the laptop in that time period when it was XP installed but I got a free
Vista CD.

Anways, now with Vista I have this NVidia Icon in my taskbar that I can't
remove, it has options to supposedly rotate the screen 180 degrees if I want
but if I select that, it doesn't do anything.

I don't care about the rotating screen bit, but I'm guessing that I've got
some sort of orphaned Nvidia program running as a holdover from the XP
install.

If anyone knows how to remove the tray icon or whatever it is running as it
doesn't appear to do anything useful I'd appreciate it.

Nvidia does have a control panel in Vista, however I've looked under every
option in there and it doesn't say anything about a taskbar icon of any sort.
The NVidia control panel help mentions a tray icon if you're running XP, but
says that there isn't one for Vista.

 

[Guest]

I already tried looking under every submenu of the display settings.

What the problem is that I have an icon called NVIDIA Rotation Settings
stuck in my task bar. It only has two options Rotate 0 degrees and Rotate
180 degrees. It doesn't do anything if I select either option.

Under all the NVIDIA display options in the control panel, there is nothing
to remove this icon, I suspect its a hold over from the XP drivers after I
installed Vista, but I'm not sure.

If anyone knows how to remove it or if I actually need it (not that it does
anything but annoy me) help would we great.

 

[...winston]

With Nvidia especially a card that has a later update from the Nvidia site..the preference is to not let Vista choose its included driver or use one if provided by Windows Update.

Additionally the last two Vista versions provided by Nvidia correctly and properly remove any prior drivers.

..winston


:
: Could always go into MSCONFIG and disable its loading. ive got a Nvidia
: GeForce Go 7600 256mb Vid card in my laptop and theres no such tray
: icon, only thing ive got is a couple of options via Control panel. Give
: that a shot.. Uninstall it really.. Vista will reinstall the device
: with the best drivers for it. If not have them on hand just incase
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: madmonkey