Question: My NVIDIA Control Panel seem to have a lack of settings other than the 3D Settings;

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I searched around a bit and found some similar problems on other websites which seemed to either have solutions that didn't work, or no replies at all.

I have a nVidia Geforce 710m and I'm on Windows 8.1 however the problem also occurred before 8.1 on 8, I re-updated a few minutes ago to the latest drivers for my GPU and OS (332.21) and the problem is still there.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer: 
This sometimes happens to me, I have to go into Device Manager and disable/enable one of the card for the control panel to update.

As a side note when it's happening the start bar spans across all my monitors (normally with spanning it is only on the primary screen)

Hope this helps.
This is by design. The missing settings are either not applicable with your current hardware (it only shows the `Stereoscopic 3D` section when you have a capable display), or are currently being controlled by another driver (probably the integrated graphics). You should always be able to select the display resolution and related features by using the Windows `Display settings` dialog, available by right-clicking the desktop.

Using the integrated graphics for the Windows desktop does not normally prevent games from automatically using your discrete graphics hardware. In cases where it does (as determined by in-game performance and diagnostics), you should be able to override by using `3D settings->Manage 3D settings` (see [here](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/72576)).

If you want a bit more control/visibility over what's going on, check out these features under `NVIDIA Control Panel->Desktop`:

* `Add "Run with graphics processor" to Context Menu`
* `Display GPU Activity Icon in Notification Area`

Using the right-click context menu to specify which graphics processor to use could be necessary for non-game applications that may use 3D acceleration (for example WebGL enabled browsers). See for example <http://fishgl.com>, which displays the rendering speed in frames-per-second, as a way of verifying that this selection makes a difference.

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For what it's worth: On my current laptop, the additional settings show up any time I connect and enable an external display. I'm running Windows 10 with the latest NVIDIA driver (384.94). Your mileage may vary, depending on software versions and hardware capabilities.

An interesing note under `Manage 3D Settings->Preferred graphics processor`:

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> Programs that launch on external displays that are driven by the NVIDIA
>  GPU will always use the NVIDIA GPU.
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