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I’m trying to reinstall the NVIDIA App but when I run the installer it automatically installs into my D drive and not my local C drive and the app won’t work and I don’t know what else I can do.
I’ve spoke to NVIDIA support with no luck and Microsoft technical support with no luck.
I’m running windows 11 on a desktop and my graphics card is a GeForce GTX 1080.
For some reason when I run the Nvidia app installer it doesn’t give me an option to choose where to install the app and I don’t know why it has all of a sudden decided install apps into my D drive and not my local C drive.
I’ve tried using a new user account, Nvidia full cleanup tool and a complete fresh download of drivers and app but nothing has worked.
And I’m at the point of not knowing what to do, I do have a windows update that needs installing but sadly I don’t have TPM 2.0 so can’t install it.
The app was working at the beginning of last week but because my local C dive was at capacity I needs to uninstall some apps to make space and I did that and have installed everything back on and is working ok apart from the NVIDIA app and Ubisoft connect but I don’t know if the two are related.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me insane.
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Anonymous
2025-03-05T11:15:31+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-03-05T09:11:36+00:00 Glad to help!
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Anonymous
2025-03-05T09:11:15+00:00 Ok thanks for your help anyway it has been much appreciated.
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Anonymous
2025-03-05T09:03:34+00:00 I do not see any problem indicated in your registry, or any logical reason why the Nvidia app would install to a folder named Downloads on the D drive, apart from resetting Windows, I do not see any way to rectify this and resetting Windows is a big job.
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Anonymous
2025-03-05T09:00:10+00:00 I don’t remember moving anything but that doesn’t mean I didn’t, I just simply cannot remember.
Is there anything I can do to rectify the issue if I did move things about.