nvcontainer.exe
Summary
NVIDIA Container - hosts NVIDIA background services and helper processes.
nvcontainer.exe is the 577th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 8,508 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer57.06%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\NvContainer42.94%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- f93f2050dc18e11e18f295b52f13bb2e864bfc966fcd9337320f8cbfa14e1b0b20.58%
- ab86d6a65b8c17ff5a5dfd4972753247dfd40b78c7c9e759468338d19c1bbc5713.29%
- c7f997559ffbcdd5d1976aac68c9c3540b9b2d038f5463b5038ff9f80a7e9e669.12%
- 759062df7daedad67bc89462d471b70d4b126544d911dbd8634faa599d1872077.5%
- 4518034d501a4ecc236ff9d0e6d1c532737285a4abf413587e4f613fa8740d2b6.61%
- 6740a717633566873388570d00cf64676f8249f65006bdda0c8e90a4266554585.62%
- 9645ca5433fb77d0e48950dd9c198b295b7e3425165ce4ca812addc4d507069e5.52%
- d938352da52ea13c004a3116f3f25e1722f8a786621d00a3473b071028d30e1c4.45%
- b023a93e13ee20a16791e98fbb6231fb83613e84255bbe8c8ea87930d4467e7a4.4%
- cace09ac4e7796161b239e24b64a83e214c9aa8dfc53ba76227cf2b80ef32b824.25%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe87.76%
- wininit.exe12.18%
- SystemSettings.exe0.02%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe64.51%
- nvcontainer.exe26.4%
- services.exe8.97%
- setup.exe0.04%
- rundll32.exe0.02%
Top Children
- OAWrapper.exe42.36%
- nvcontainer.exe20.33%
- NvSHIM.exe11.1%
- NvOAWrapperCache.exe7.68%
- rundll32.exe4.24%
- NVIDIA Share.exe3.91%
- nvsphelper64.exe1.35%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.