i found this in liutilities( now called Uniblue) regarding nvsvc32.exe:
nvsvc32 - nvsvc32.exe - Process Information
Process File: nvsvc32 or nvsvc32.exe
Process Name: NVIDIA Driver Helper Service
Description:
nvsvc32.exe is a process that belongs to the NVIDIA graphics card drivers. This process should not be removed to ensure that your graphics card drivers is working properly.
After 4 days without, my little flashing run/cmd box is back. I think I'm getting used to it now.
