Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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nvtray.exe
NVIDIA Settings by NVIDIA Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 7.17.12.8562 |
| MD5: | 56d963e8a30c55638796b3ff9d57d0a7 |
| SHA1: | 01170936cf7900310f8e8cb94b34ac2982aa6a14 |
| SHA256: | 35a9e4789027d7fe5e5c00c3f0b83a809dcba1144b95362713c2fc5acb53eb61 |
What is nvtray.exe?
nvtray.exe NVIDIA Settings is the program that runs in the notification area system tray.
Overview
nvtray.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
nvxdsync.exe (NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component by NVIDIA Corporation). The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by NVIDIA Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | nvtray.exe |
| Publisher: | NVIDIA Corporation |
| Product name: | NVIDIA Settings |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\nvidia corporation\display\nvtray.exe |
| File version: | 7.17.12.8562 |
| Size: | 1.74 MB (1,820,480 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | NVIDIA Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Thursday, September 1, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Monday, September 1, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 48001
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.04781562% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01043867% | |
| User CPU: | 0.03737695% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 11,310,088 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 23,443/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.04 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 11.25 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 9.25 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.04 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 82.66 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 85.16 MB | |
| Working set: | 10.93 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 11.32 MB | |
| Page faults: | 7,300/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 2.19 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 135 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 6/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 164 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 82 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 83 | |
| GUI USER count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 4 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
25.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
25.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
10.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
6.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
6.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
4.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
4.50% |
|
| Windows 8 |
4.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Seven Black Edition |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro N |
0.50% |
|
| 21 other Windows OS version |
Distribution by country
United States installs about 35.35% of NVIDIA Settings.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
22.71% |
|
| Acer |
17.03% |
|
| Dell |
14.85% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
11.79% |
|
| Lenovo |
11.35% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
4.80% |
|
| Alienware |
3.49% |
|
| Intel |
3.49% |
|
| Sony |
3.49% |
|
| MSI |
2.62% |
|
| American Megatrends |
2.18% |
|
| Toshiba |
0.87% |
|
| Samsung |
0.87% |
|
| Sahara |
0.44% |
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