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The Driver Helper Service is used in configuring a PC's GPU drivers for video graphics cards. They provide the ability to override OpenGL refresh rates through via Control Panel in the display properties. It also provides functionality to manage the GPU's refresh rates via the built-in refresh forcer utility.

nvvsvc.exe runs as a service under the name NVIDIA Display Driver Service (nvsvc) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). 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). This particular version is usually found on Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536).

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00348454%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00089650%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00258804%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	78 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
Context switches:	3/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	8.68 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	15.27 MB
Private (minimum):	15.11 MB
Non-paged memory:	8.68 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	91.78 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	100.43 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	15.21 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	33.29 MB	37.95 MB
Resource allocations
Threads:	6	12
Handles:	154	600
GUI GDI count:	20	103
GUI GDI peak:	25	142
GUI USER count:	9	49
GUI USER peak:	9	71

nvsvc64.dll (NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 295.72 by NVIDIA)
Total CPU:	0.00394060%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.00315248%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00078812%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	157,445/sec	5,741,424/sec
Context switches:	3/sec	79/sec
Memory:	2.98 MB	1.16 MB
nvvsvc.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00209883%
Kernel CPU:	0.00139922%
User CPU:	0.00069961%
CPU cycles:	43,541/sec
Memory:	892 KB
nvapi64.dll (NVIDIA Windows drivers by NVIDIA)
Total CPU:	0.00078843%
Kernel CPU:	0.00078843%
User CPU:	0.00000000%
CPU cycles:	31,004/sec
Memory:	2.7 MB