Table of Contents.NVidia Control Panel Missing: Fixes to TryMentioned below are the solutions to fix the problem when the NVidia control panel goes missing on Windows 10. Here are those basic and advanced fixes for you. Solution 1: Restart NVIDIA ServicesThis is a basic method trying which you can fix the issue. When your NVIDIA Control Panel has gone missing from the Desktop context menu and the System Tray suddenly, you should definitely perform this method to check if it fixes the problem. Here are the steps that you need to follow.Step 1: Press the Windows key and the R key together on your keyboard to open the Run utility.
Some users have recently reported, that after a recent update, the NVIDIA control panel keeps crashing on their device. This can become very annoying for the users who regularly use the control panel to fine-tune their settings. Check out this article if you see GeForce saying unable to connect to NVIDIA. How to open Control Panel as Administrator with runas —27 December 2010. Open a cmd window as Administrator. Runas /u:administrator cmd. Keep a cmd window running as your non-Administrator user too. Open task manager (Ctrl-Esc or with taskmgr command) and kill explorer.exe. Run the command “control”.
After that, type services.msc there and hit the Enter key on your keyboard. This will take you to the Services window and you will see all the services running on your device, here.Step 2: Find the services whose name includes NVIDIA. Then you have to select all the NVIDIA services and hit the Restart button from the left of the window.You have click on Start after right-clicking when you see the service is not running.If you see an error message saying “Windows cannot start Nvidia Display Container Service”, you have to follow these steps to fix it.
First, click on the Start menu get into the Device Manager. Then you have to expand the Display Adaptors. Right-click on the Nvidia driver and select Uninstall. Restart the device.Now check if you can find the NVIDIA Control Panel.
If you do not see it, restart your computer and check again. If you still do not see it, perform the fixes coming next. Solution 2: Try Launching NVIDIA Control Panel ManuallyIf the above solution could not bring back your missing Nvidia Control Panel, you can launch the Nvidia Control Panel manually and check if this method can fix your problem. Here are the steps following which you can launch the NVIDIA Control Panel and create a desktop shortcut for it. First, go to the My Computer folder and get into the C Drive.
Find the folder called Program Files and get into it. There you will get the folder NVIDIA Corporation. If you do not see the NVIDIA Corporation folder there, you will find it in the Program Files (x86) folder.
After getting into the NVIDIA Corporation folder, you have to open the Control Panel Client. Toad freeware expired. Find the nvcplui file in this folder. Then click on the option Run as administrator after right-clicking on the nvcplui file.To make a Desktop Shortcut of the NVIDIA Control Panel right-click on nvcplui and select Create Shortcut from the menu.
Solution 3: Try Reinstalling the NVIDIA Control PanelWhen the Nvidia control panel goes missing, you can try reinstalling the Nvidia Control Panel to fix it.