nvvsvc.exe
NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 267.33 by NVIDIA Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 8.17.12.6733 |
| MD5: | e883d0375af4a807f5b4490688ad1038 |
| SHA1: | 5b4a59d26ea5596b3ae72944358d72057ea4c4bb |
| SHA256: | ac7e89e99d2a14ec43630a6e95f2cb64435d9a33f3d55ec09de99e155b3e61fa |
What is nvvsvc.exe?
The NVIDIA Driver Helper Service is used in configuring a PC's NVIDIA drivers for video graphics cards. They provide the ability to override OpenGL refresh rates through via NVIDIA Control Panel in the display properties.
Overview
nvvsvc.exe runs as a service under the name NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (NVSvc) within the local user context. 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: | nvvsvc.exe |
| Publisher: | NVIDIA Corporation |
| Product name: | NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 267.33 |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\nvvsvc.exe |
| Original name: | nvsvc32.exe |
| File version: | 8.17.12.6733 |
| Size: | 981.6 KB (1,005,160 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | NVIDIA Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, September 2, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'NVSvc' (NVIDIA Driver Helper Service)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00082458% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00077270% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00005188% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,365,009 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 14,858/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.01 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 8.31 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.05 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.01 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 72.24 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 77.24 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.77 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 9.85 MB | |
| Page faults: | 3,989/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 5 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 3 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 142 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 13 | |
| GUI USER count: | 6 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 6 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- C:\Windows\System32\nvvsvc.exe -session -first
- C:\Windows\System32\nvvsvc.exe
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| Owner: | User |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | NVSvc |
| Display name: | NVIDIA Driver Helper Service |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent processes: |
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Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
75.00% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
25.00% |
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Distribution by country
Russia installs about 75.00% of NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 267.33.