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December 25, 2020 at 7:04 pm #2140771
Nahimic Companion
by itsdigger · about 4 years, 4 months ago
Tags: Windows
Nahimic Companion suddenly appeared in my Win 10 toolbar.
I have looked and some say it was installed with the latest Windows update.Some say it’s a sound driver for my MSI motherboard. It does show up in the Device Manager as a sound driver.
It’s kind of creepy the way this showed up though.Should I uninstall this?
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December 25, 2020 at 9:11 pm #2419003
That would be correct it is a driver
by oh smeg · about 4 years, 4 months ago
In reply to Nahimic Companion
And Windows would have downloaded it with the latest Patches because that is how Win 10 works it picks up drivers for the OS so they do not have to be installed separately.
Not sure what the issue is as that is the way that Win 10 works.
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December 25, 2020 at 9:12 pm #2419002
As noted by you.
by rproffitt · about 4 years, 4 months ago
In reply to Nahimic Companion
It was in a WU. https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/comments/k6kegl/nahimic_companion_app_got_installed_after_a/ repeats most of all that can be written.
While this can upset some, your choice to remove but hey, it’s a driver.
In that discussion is a note how to disable Windows Driver Updates. Which is your choice as well.
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December 26, 2020 at 4:16 am #2418996
Guess
by bob.b · about 4 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Nahimic Companion
You are allowing winupd to install device drivers.
I block that and get drivers the manual way from the maker.
That way I can keep track of it and don’t get surprises.As to should you uninstall it.
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December 26, 2020 at 4:05 pm #2418991
I thought I did that
by itsdigger · about 4 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Guess
In the Win update settings but I had to go deeper and disable it individually by following the instructions AzogBiceps noted here > https://linustechtips.com/topic/1281065-what-is-nahimic-companion-and-why-is-it-suddenly-on-my-custom-pc/?tab=comments#comment-14304138 .
I don’t want to mess with this thing. I have been running just fine without these addons. Thanks guy’s-
December 27, 2020 at 12:16 am #2418980
Just remember you have to reset this after every Patch
by oh smeg · about 4 years, 3 months ago
In reply to I thought I did that
Well at least that is the way it used to be not looked at 10 recently but every time a new patch came through you had to reset what you blocked.
Most people just gave up and went with what Windows Delivered because it’s a pain needing to remember every month to go in and turn it off.
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December 27, 2020 at 12:55 am #2418978
Am I missing something?
by itsdigger · about 4 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Just remember you have to reset this after every Patch
Here’s the settings in Advanced Options that I believed did not allow these downloads. https://imgur.com/gHurSR8
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December 27, 2020 at 1:21 am #2418977
Blank Page at the moment at least
by oh smeg · about 4 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Am I missing something?
But the real problem here is that 10 used to reset these each time that it applied a Security Patch to Defaults. So every month you had to go back and reset them.
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December 27, 2020 at 2:20 pm #2418971
Drivers
by bob.b · about 4 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Am I missing something?
Advanced options.
I have that set that way also.
No idea if that functions or not so I added this with gpe.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-automatic-driver-updates-windows-10Belt + suspenders.
So far I have not seen any drivers come through.
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December 27, 2020 at 4:33 pm #2418965
Thanks Bob
by itsdigger · about 4 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Drivers
I set mine up like that . I believe we’re losing any control of our computers with Windows these days but, for me it’s still the best game in town.
After making the adjustments you linked, I uninstalled Nahemic and rebooted and blam, it was right back. At least I didn’t install the program, just the driver returned….
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December 27, 2020 at 5:54 pm #2418957
Driver
by bob.b · about 4 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Thanks Bob
I don’t have the product to play with but it may require some fuss-in to get it totally out.
I see some hits on the web on how to uninstall it and you need to bounce around different areas.
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November 26, 2021 at 3:50 am #3939818
Don’t need to worry
by alexhunter27 · about 3 years, 4 months ago
In reply to Nahimic Companion
I was just like you before, I feel confused when it suddenly appeared after Windows update. But when I did some research from internet. I realized it just an app that work alongside Nahimic. The app which was pre-install on my PC long time ago
If you dont wanna be bothered by the nahimic companion, just untickin nahimic companion window.
But for me i still keep using the companion, with that app we can keep tracking the update about audio driver as well as the Nahimic version
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