NVidia Driver 397.93 released

[Chalenge]

Not a big deal for most people, but . . .

Changes in this Release:

Removed Experience Improvement Program from the NVIDIA Control Panel.

And I believe that means that unless you run the Microsoft Autoruns editor and turn off telemetry, you have zero control over whether telemetry is on, or not.

[Chalenge]

The number of telemetry objects has increased as well. AND I chose not to install GeForce Experience (the new option).

[Skuzzy]

It is getting ridiculous.

[Drano]

Can't they just get their data from Google and Facebook like everybody else? Jeez!

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If they could own you DNA, they would, and sue your for infringement on it 

[Easyscor]

I was never able to figure out how to get the nVidia drivers without first installing "Experience"? letting it install whatever they decided for users, and then deleting "Experience".

Is there any way to download or transfer recent drivers without all the nonsense? I'm about to clean install Win7 on a new SSD and and don't want this crap if there's any other choice.

Thanks

 

[Skuzzy]

I have heard you can disable all the telemetry with Autoruns.

Easycor, are you using the Windows updater to update/install the drivers?  The package installer from NVidia used to have an option to install GeForce E, or not.

[Chalenge]

First, uninstall with DDU. Then:

Run the custom install routine (it's an option), then untick everything you don't use (in my case 3D surround, audio, experience). The run Autoruns in administrator mode, search for Nvidia (as in the image I attached above) and uncheck all of the items that have telemetry in the name. Then reboot.

[Easyscor]

Thanks guys. The nvidia driver was the chief reason I was dragging my feet installing that new drive.