How to Remove Games from NVIDIA GeForce Experience on Windows 10

If you want to remove a game from NVIDIA GeForce Experience on Windows 10, the safest current method is to use the NVIDIA app instead of editing GeForce Experience database files. NVIDIA says GeForce Experience is no longer supported and is directing remaining users to the NVIDIA app. The newer app supports Windows 10 and gives you supported controls for hiding detected titles, removing manually added programs, and changing the folders it scans.

In most cases, you do not need to uninstall the game or delete NVIDIA cache files. Use the method below that matches what you are trying to accomplish.

Hide a detected game from the NVIDIA app

For a game that NVIDIA detected automatically, Hide is the normal way to remove it from your visible Graphics list without changing the game installation.

1. Install or open the NVIDIA app.
2. Select Graphics in the left sidebar, then open Program Settings.
3. Find the game or app you no longer want shown.
4. Open the three-dot menu for that program and choose Hide.

NVIDIA documents this behavior in its overview of the Graphics tab: the per-program menu can hide a program, while the sort and filter controls can later show hidden entries again. This is preferable to the old workaround of stopping NVIDIA services and deleting files from AppData\Local\NVIDIA\NvBackend.

Remove a program that you added manually

The NVIDIA app treats manually added programs differently. NVIDIA added a supported Remove option for programs that were manually added to the Graphics tab. If the entry came from the app's manual add function, open its three-dot menu and choose Remove when that command is available.

This distinction matters: automatically detected games are normally hidden, while manually added programs can be removed. NVIDIA's release highlights specifically note support for removing manually added programs.

Show or restore a hidden game

Hiding a game is reversible. To find a title you hid earlier:

1. Go to Graphics > Program Settings.
2. Open the Sort/Filter control.
3. Enable the Hidden filter.
4. Open the program's three-dot menu and choose the option to unhide it.

Stop NVIDIA from scanning a game folder

If the same games keep appearing because NVIDIA scans a folder that you do not want included, review the app's scan locations instead of deleting its internal data. NVIDIA Support says scan folders can be managed under Settings > Scan Locations.

1. Open Settings in the NVIDIA app.
2. Find Scan Locations.
3. Review the folders being scanned for games and apps.
4. Remove a scan location only if you no longer want NVIDIA to discover supported programs stored in that folder.

Be careful with broad folders such as C:\Program Files or a Steam library folder. Removing one of those locations can affect multiple games, not just the title you are trying to hide. If you only want one game out of sight, use Hide instead.

What if you still use GeForce Experience?

GeForce Experience is now a legacy product. NVIDIA's current NVIDIA App FAQ states that GeForce Experience is no longer supported, and NVIDIA has also warned remaining users that critical GeForce Experience web servers will be switched off in the future.

For that reason, the old technique of stopping every NVIDIA service and deleting journalBS files from the NvBackend folder should no longer be the recommended fix. It removes the app's stored game list in an unsupported way, can wipe more entries than intended, and does not provide a clean per-game control.

If GeForce Experience still works on your Windows 10 PC, the practical long-term fix is to migrate to the NVIDIA app and use its built-in Graphics controls. You can confirm current requirements and migration details in NVIDIA's upgrade notice.

Which method should you use?

The key change from older GeForce Experience advice is that you no longer need to manipulate NVIDIA's backend files just to clean up the game list. On Windows 10, the supported NVIDIA app controls are simpler, reversible, and much less likely to remove more than you intended.