Disable Nvidia Drivers Telemetry on Windows

When installing Nvidia game ready display drivers, Nvidia generously grants itself literally root access (wording from Nvidia itself) to your system. If you like me don't like this very much here is how you remove this.

The following informations are based on:

• Nvidia WHQL Driver 581.29 as of September 2025
• Windows 11 Home 24H2 26100.4946

How to Check if Nvidia Root Container for Telemetry is Installed

Open Windows services panel, i.e. as follows:

Press Ctrl + r

Type services.msc

Look for services with NVIDIA in its name. I had three of them:

Display Name	Service Name	Description	Path to Exe-File
NVIDIA Display Container LS	NVDisplay.ContainerLocalSystem	Container service for NVIDIA root features	See below
NVIDIA FrameView SDK service	FvSvc	NVIDIA FrameView SDK service	See below
NVIDIA LocalSystem Container	NvContainerLocalSystem	Container service for NVIDIA root features	See below

NVIDIA Display Container LS Path to Exe-File

C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_6cdc9372d41a2731\Display.NvContainer\NVDisplay.Container.exe -s NVDisplay.ContainerLocalSystem -f C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA\NVDisplay.ContainerLocalSystem.log -l 3 -d C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_6cdc9372d41a2731\Display.NvContainer\ plugins\LocalSystem -r -p 30000 -cfg NVDisplay.ContainerLocalSystem\LocalSystem /ert

NVIDIA FrameView SDK service Path to Exe-File

"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\FrameViewSDK\nvfvsdksvc_x64.exe" -service

NVIDIA LocalSystem Container Path to Exe-File

"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer\nvcontainer.exe" -s NvContainerLocalSystem -a -f "C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA\NvContainerLocalSystem.log" -l 3 -d "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer\plugins\LocalSystem" -r -p 30000 -st "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer\NvContainerTelemetryApi.dll" -ert

As you can see the NVIDIA LocalSystem Container service contains a path to a telemetry API DLL located at:

 C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer\NvContainerTelemetryApi.dll

Uninstall Telemetry Container

Run Terminal as Administrator:

Execute command:

rundll32 "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2\InstallerCore\NVI2.DLL",UninstallPackage NvTelemetryContainer

Disable Service NVIDIA LocalSystem Container

Open Windows services panel, i.e. as follows:

Press Ctrl + r

Type services.msc

Find this service:

Display Name	Service Name
NVIDIA LocalSystem Container	NvContainerLocalSystem

Double click it and click on Stop. Then set the start type to disabled.

Sources and Further Reading

https://boxthislap.org/disable-nvidia-telemetry-tracking-on-windows/

https://github.com/cnleo/nvidia-telemetry-remove