Windows 10: no nvidia control panel after clean install?

I have geforce experience installed, drivers are up to date, but there is no sign on nvidia control panel to enable sli. Usually theres an icon on the taskbar, or when I right click on the desktop.

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Every Time I Clean Boot my Nvidia Control Panel Stops Working

I tried to download Aerize Optimizer from Microsoft Store and it failed with error code 0x80240024. I did a suggested clean boot and my Nvidia Control Panel won't open. Sometimes it gives the message "Nvidia Control Panel Application 8.0.1.something
has stopped working..." Sometimes it just won't open. In any event, I've never been able to download Aerize Optimizer or use my Nvidia Control Panel after a clean boot.

 

Removing NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS card & Uninstalling NVIDIA driver and software

Hi!

Sys Temp file where disk cleaned. But they had 0 KB, cleaned anyway.

Still in file system

• C:\Program Files
• C:\ProgramData
• NVIDIA Control Panel entry in control panel

I would hate to install the software & drivers again just to see if a clean uninstall would happen. Guess I could go through deleting one by one.

Edited:

Downloaded NVidia drivers form NVidia. Had to reinsert the GeForce 8400GS card to install the software. After install shutdown and removed card and started PC.

Had to use the settings manager > system > Apps & features, to remove all NVidia software. Control panel entry for NVidia control panel was removed. Deleted all NVidia folders from C:\Program Files and C:\ProgramData. C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\ still
has NVidia entries.

Windows does not completely remove software & drivers. But clean enough.

 

Download Drivers | NVIDIA those should work

 

I already have the latest driver as I mentioned, since microsoft now forces driver updates upon us (thumbs down!)

Uninstalled, rebooted and it's still installed. This auto driver update is turning out to be problematic

 

The NVIDIA Control Panel is included in NVIDIA OEM driver packages, I'm not so sure the drivers provided by Windows Update includes the files needed to install NVIDIA's Control Panel.

Download the OEM NVIDIA driver then uninstall the Windows Update NVIDIA driver, reboot and install the OEM NVIDIA driver, reboot again and should have the NVIDIA Control Panel enabled.

Then check with Windows Update and re-download the latest NVDIA driver from Windows Update install (over the OEM NVIDIA driver) and reboot, this should give you the latest Windows Update NVDIA driver while still retaining the NVIDIA Control Panel installed by the OEM NVIDIA driver.

 

Typically the NVidia software provided in Windows Update doesn't include the control panel, so I would download the latest windows 10 beta drivers from their website.