Don't Play on my TV

Remove nVidia Right-Click Menu Quickly

27 Jan 2007

nVidia drivers have an annoying feature where the context menu is hijacked to display "Play on My TV" for several file types. The coolest part about this feature is that I don't have a TV. I don't even have TV output. So when I right click on an .avi, .mpg, etc the screen goes blank or flickers for a second.

Actually it even happens when copying files in explorer with CTRL+C/CTRL+V as well.

nVidia claims this is expected behavior and their remedy is to manually remove the offending entries from the registry. I created some registry files to remove the entries quicker since they get re-added every time you install new drivers.

So here ya go:

DontPlayOnMyTV.zip [ZIP File] | [Single Reg File]

The NVidia helper service may re-add these to the registry, I'm not sure. The nvcpl.dll file may be causing this as well [archived].