Nvidia issue with windows 7

[Xav1985]

I updated the drivers for my gtx260 and this strange thing has happened and i cannot get rid of it



basically i do the usual, uninstall old drivers, restart, install new drivers, restart and im set.

but now i have this issue where i see 2 nvidia control panels and i cannot get rid of the blank one. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks very much

 

[Ballistic]

Same thing happened to me.. I noticed it for a couple days.. I didn't do this with the intention of getting rid of it but I think it got rid of it.. All I did was clean things up with CCleaner and later I noticed it was no longer there.. Again I did not run CCleaner with the intention of getting rid of the extra one but I later noticed it was no longer there...

 

[WDAexodus]

Yeah, CCleaner will do it.

 

[Xav1985]

I ran Ccleaner and the blank version of nvidia control panel is still there.

are there specific sections of Ccleaner i have to tick in order to remove this dead icon from my control panel?

 

[Zahl]

Driver sweeper also works well for cleaning out leftovers. Hope it takes care of it for you.
Guru3D - Driver Sweeper


Edit- Run it in windows safe mode for best results and make sure to uninstall the drivers from add/remove programs in the control panel before running the cleaner