FEATURE REQUEST: Remove old extracted installation files about chocopkgs

[bcurran3]

HEY! Thanks. It looks like you're right. The last set of drivers in my \NVIDIA directory are 397.41 whilst I've got 419.67 installed.

Now to go delete them... for good!

p.s.

hmm, my C:\NVIDIA is owned by the ADMINISTRATORS group already, not SYSTEM. I could just delete mine. I wonder: is your task running chocolatey as SYSTEM somehow?

Yes. my CUP ALL runs every morning at 2AM via SYSTEM account:
https://chocolatey.org/packages/choco-upgrade-all-at

[bcurran3]

CONFIRMED: Changing OWNER to local ADMINISTRATOR allows easy deletion of the files.

[AeliusSaionji]

hmm, my C:\NVIDIA is owned by the ADMINISTRATORS group already, not SYSTEM. I could just delete mine. I wonder: is your task running chocolatey as SYSTEM somehow?

[AeliusSaionji]

Seems like the drivers don't create a c:\NVIDIA folder anymore? You might be interested to know that NVIDIA does leave a significant chunk of files in C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2, and Windows itself holds on to previous versions of the driver (which can consume multiple GB) somewhere in the WINDOWS folder. You might want to keep those around since they are used in system restore, but you can use something like https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer to purge those.

Anyway, closing this.