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Nvidia Control Panel missing
I know there are a lot of old threads on this, but I've not seen an actual answer to this and it's been bugging me for over a year ever since I completely de-installed Nvidia from my Win 10-64 system due to apparent failure to upgrade to new drivers and getting a popup stating "The data is invalid".
I decided to have another go and went into safe mode, deleted all Nvidia directories, deleed driver in DEV MGR and rebooted. I had downloaded the latest 388.71 WHQL 12/20/17 driver and installed. It hummed along, blanked out my screens, then came back and at the end got the popup "the data is invalid" again. Crap! I checked the directories however and all the files appeared to actually have been installed, although DEV MGR said the driver date was 6/07/17 Ver 8253 and not 8871 as I would have expected. Not sure how this was accomplished.
I went to DEV MGR and hit the update key and pointed it to the latest driver uncompiled in C:\nvidia\etc--. This completed successfully and on checking DEV MRG reported the latest driver finally installed Ver 8871 12/15/17. However, there was still no sign in Control panel of the NVIDIA control panel.. So I'm happy that I finally have the latest driver installed, but I haven't found a clear and decisive answer if I can get the Control Panel back in Windows CP. I need it to control the gamma on my system as there is no other means. I don't play games, but I do a lot of photoshop and photography so gamma and colour balance are very important. Would really appreciate it if someone has a clear and up to date solution, as I've tried tons of recommendations over the last year and nothing worked.
Please, no amateur answers. I've worked with computers since 1980 on PDP's and I've been thru the treadmill on this. Surely there is an answer to this basic question - can it be restored or is the current state incompatible with Win 10. It used to work fine until I deleted it, so I can't see that as being the problem.
Cheers to all, may Crom ignore you, and your circuits work smoothly in 2018