Nvidia Driver Removal

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A friend of mine changed graphics cards from a geforce 5200fx to a Radeon of some kind.

The company he paid to do it didn't uninstall Nvidia software properly.

Now when Windows start he gets an error saying cannot find NVCPL.DLL

How do I complete remove all Nvidia software and make this error stop.

Thank you in advance,

notchris
 

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We also took the old Nvidia card and replace a really old ATI card with it and we cannot get rid of these two files. NFR and Driver Cleaner won't do it

Any Idea how do I get rid of them?

C:\WINDOWS\system32\atiadlxx.dll

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2evxx.dll
 

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Help the NVCPL.DLL error is back and won't go away even with the software above

Does anyone know how i can trace down what program is calling the DLL file to load????

Could it be a virus that effecte Nvidia software and thats why I can't find an Nvidia program calling the DLL

or maybe i'm not looking in the right place
 

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i already ran Malewarebyte and the machine in question has a subscribed copy of macafee up to date and ran a full system scan with it. got rid of some stuff but the NVCPL.DLL is missing or whatever still comes back on a restart


i've run both NFR and Driversweeper still comes back

there has to be a way to trace a DLL call down

btw Thank you so much Mosox your extremely helpful hopefully you can help me figure this all out
 
Try this

Start/run type msconfig -OK go to and look under startup and services for anything nvidia, you can disable them.

Also start/run type regedit then hit OK

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion


In all those look for NVIDIA Display Driver Service, NvMediaCenter, nvsvc, nvscpl, nvshell, nwiz.exe.

 

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I used Ccleaner to disable start up items before i posted this
I also deleted some stuff from the registry that was Nvidia related maybe i didn't get it all
but i did a search for Nvidia in regedit and deleted those too

I'll check it again though and i plan on going through the guide ortoklaz posted

not 2 sure about sfc/ purgecache would do though

could you explain dadiggle

and I still would like to know if there is software to trace a .dll call or any software calling, fetching ,etc

Thank you again,

I will post my results when all is complete


 

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i don't think that sounds like a very good idea there may be other files in that folder i want to have backed up how about a way to navigate to that folder and delete only the files I need too
 

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So I conclude this....

After running running malwarebyte a few times I opened ccleaner and the Nvidia NVCPL.DLL executable was in the startup list and able to be disabled.

It was not there last time I looked...

Malwarebyte must have restored or defaulted something

Thank you all for your help

notchris
 
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