About The Nvidia Display Driver Installation; File Locations; Preserving Desktop Manager Settings Before Upgrading Your Software - Nvidia P128 - Quadro FX2000 Dual Graphic Card 8x 128MB Model OEM User Manual

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About the NVIDIA Display Driver Installation

NVIDIA Driver Installation provides both an .inf file-based installation
method and an InstallShield Wizard-based installation method.

File Locations

• The installation process copies all necessary files for operation into the
appropriate directories.
• The nView system files are copied to your Windows\System directory.
• nView Desktop Manager "profile" (.tvp) files are saved in the Windows\
nView directory.
• As part of the installation process, an uninstall is registered in your system.
• Under Windows Me and Windows XP, the NVIDIA driver is installed in
"Dualview" display mode. However, note that the second display is not
activated (turned on) by default. You need to enable it. For details on
enabling Dualview mode, see
Span/Clone" on page 35
• Under Windows 2000, the NVIDIA Display Driver is installed in Span
mode.
Preserving Desktop Manager Settings Before Upgrading
Your Software
You can preserve your Desktop Manager settings by using profiles when you
upgrade your software.
Follow the steps below and/or refer to the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager 2.0
User's Guide for details.
Before uninstalling or installing software, save your current nView Desktop
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Manager settings to a new profile.
For example, name this profile "My Settings".
Open the Windows\nView directory.
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You should see your new profile .tvp file in this directory; for example, My
Settings.tvp.
You can copy this file to a disk in your A: drive or to a different directory on
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your hard drive.
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