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by itsdigger 2 views

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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?
Screenshot> https://i.imgur.com/Vi4jQSO.png

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by oh smeg

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.

by bob.b

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.
Looks like it comes with a control panel so play with the thing and see if it has value.

by oh smeg

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.

by oh smeg

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.

by itsdigger

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....

by bob.b

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.

by alexhunter27

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 untick in 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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