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Help please, selecting 'Manage 3D settings' crashes nvidia control panel, driving me crazy.

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I've tried everything, driver sweeper, different drivers, uninstalling and reinstalling in safe mode, even system restore but no matter what every time I select 'Manage 3D settings' the control panel freezes and crashes :confused:

I had a good google around and I think it may be something to do with a game library or list being corrupt maybe?

Anyone had this problem before?
 
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YESSS! FIXED

Just in case anyone googles this the solution is as follows because it seems a few people have this problem,

Download 'Process Monitor' from Windows Sysinternals here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645, boot it up and filter nvcplui.exe so you don't see all the other processes, and then boot up the nivida control panel and monitor nvcplui.exe's interactions in the process monitor, what you'll find is that it doesn't like to read long or abstracted file names and crashes out while doing so, you should be able to spot the file or folder that is giving you the issue, just delete it/rename it.
 
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