Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, NVIDIA Corporation publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
Parent process
Child process
Related files
nvvsvc.exe
NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 326.80 by NVIDIA Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 8.17.13.2680 |
| MD5: | 25b8a7961b812ae9b0071b9a9ac00fad |
| SHA1: | 30bd41a4bf5d086fc7cd43e515b9aec1ab9c1d26 |
| SHA256: | 688a1f7fcbe597cf80ac75fafbe006a9eafe7d39e1f2639773ae46829905e271 |
Overview
nvvsvc.exe runs as a service under the name NVIDIA Display Driver Service (nvsvc) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). 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 326.80 |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\nvvsvc.exe |
| Original name: | nvsvc32.exe |
| File version: | 8.17.13.2680 |
| Size: | 647.28 KB (662,816 bytes) |
| Build date: | 8/19/2013 3:43 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | NVIDIA Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'nvsvc' (NVIDIA Display Driver Service)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00084532% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00043268% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00041264% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 133 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 23,478/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 2.83 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 8.62 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 5.82 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 2.83 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 67.68 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 73.54 MB | |
| Working set: | 6.37 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.7 MB | |
| Page faults: | 6,268/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 2 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 200 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 5 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 6 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- C:\Windows\System32\nvvsvc.exe -session -first
- "C:\Windows\System32\nvvsvc.exe"
|
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | nvsvc |
| Display name: | NVIDIA Display Driver Service |
| Description: | “Provides system and desktop level support to the NVIDIA display driver” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| nvvsvc.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00084732% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00052315% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00032416% | |
| CPU cycles: | 15,646/sec | |
| Memory: | 664 KB | |
| nvsvc.dll (NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 326.80 by NVIDIA) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00065615% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00029623% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00035993% | |
| CPU cycles: | 68,817/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.9 MB | |
| sechost.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00037049% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00018525% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00018525% | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,665/sec | |
| Memory: | 100 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 Pro |
60.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
40.00% |
|
Distribution by country
Taiwan installs about 80.00% of NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 326.80.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| GIGABYTE |
60.00% |
|
| Acer |
20.00% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
20.00% |
|
