My attempt, to unzip the archive, using Windows 7 context menu command, ends with the error message below: But other copies produced the same behavior. First I thought the download was damaged. Then I tried to have a look into the ZIP archive, using a double click (my intention was, to use Windows build in features for that).īut I got the message shown above on my German Windows, that says 'Could not open the folder, due to the ZIP compressed folder … is not valid'.

Visiting the guru3d forum I found version 0.5, which I downloaded in Windows 7 SP1. Within the article linked above (and another German article), version 0.4 of the tool has been tested. I've read Martin's blog post an thought 'you need to check this tool, sounds good'.

Sounds reasonable, and the tool has been introduced within the guru3d forum. NVIDIA Driver Slimming Utility (NVSlimmer) is a free portable program for Windows to remove unwanted components from Nvidia drivers before installation. The screenshot shown in the tweet above indicates the options for customization, which looks tempting. With this tool you can customize a Nvidia driver installation packag. NVTrimmer: remove unwanted components from Nvidia drivers #nvidia #drivers #videocard /BocHWBs20l Martin Brinkmann introduced NVTrimmer on a few days ago – here is his tweet. But, if you think you need that tool, you should at least have read the following explanations and be aware of the potential consequences. At a first glance it's a good idea to have such a tool, and I value the intension of the developer of this tool. At this point I'd like to make a clear: It's not my intension to criticizes my blogging colleagues.

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