Anyone familiar with nVidia or nView?

[Lisa0825]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_nview.html

nView Multi-Display Technology

NVIDIA® nView™ multi-display software--bundled free with NVIDIA® ForceWare™ desktop, workstation, mobile, platform, and multimedia software solutions--provides you with a revolutionary way to multi-task and process information easier. Instead of stacking windows within the confines of a single display, imagine spreading your work across multiple displays. If you are a financial analyst--have one monitor per data stream. If you are a graphic artist--use an entire display for palettes, and another for editing. The possibilities are endless with NVIDIA nView technology.

nView is seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft® Windows® environment, helping you maximize productivity though advanced desktop and application management. nView also provides increased efficiency on a single monitor by enabling multiple Windows desktops, quicker access to hidden windows with transparency and window rollups, and hotkeys for access to all nView functions. nView provides a quick and easy way for you to manage multiple Windows desktops, thereby increasing your efficiency and enabling you to see what you've been missing.

I think this may be the progam that is doing things I don't like on the donated computer at the animal shelter. The windows toolbar goes transparent at times, and X-mouse-type-functions (changing window focus without clicking) won't go away completely, even with TWEAKUI. I want to uninstall this, but it gives me a warning about uninstalling nVidia drivers. Does anyone know enough about nVidia/nView to know if it will cause display problems for me if I uninstall it? I would like to know if uninstalling it will only affect the enhanced features I don't use (like multiple monitors) or if I am risking screwing up my display.

I am not on that computer right now, but will be this evening, so if anyone has any steps for me to follow to look into this, or specific questions, I will see them later.

Thanks for any input.

[bemildred]

1. You ought to be able to remove it, from the control panel.

Which is what I would do. Well, I would not install it. Which is not to say someone else might not like it. Anyway, AFAIK, you have nothing to fear from removing it, I've done it many times. Sometimes one needs to check that none of the crap that runs at startup is still enabled too. If for some reason, after removing it, you want it back, the driver package that it comes with is a free download from Nvidia, and it's a good idea to get the most recent driver package anyway.

[Lisa0825]

2. Thanks for the input!

The newly donated computer came tonight, so I am taking the other one home, but I won't get it setup until tomrrow evening. I'll uninstall it and see how it goes.