[BUG] Chocolatey refuses to install anywhere except in the UniGetUI folder

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UniGetUI Version

2026.2.7

Windows version, edition, and architecture

Windows 10

Describe your issue

I am trying to install Chocolatey while having Chocolatey previously installed (via UniGetUI?)

The reason I am doing this is because I DO NOT want my chocolatey install location to be;

C:\Users\Main\AppData\Local\UniGetUI\Chocolatey

I instead want the location be the default for Chocolatey installs, which is;

C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey Source

The problem is; no matter how I now choose to install Chocolatey; it ALWAYS installs to

C:\Users\Main\AppData\Local\UniGetUI\Chocolatey

Even using an install method totally unrelated to UniGetUI; the Powershell window will say it is installing there; and I have no control to change it. It is totally ignoring the default install location to install in the UniGetUI folder.

How do I change this??? I do not want my Chocolatey installed apps to be in the UniGetUI subfolder.

Thanks.

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I also know about changing the Chocolatey executable location via UniGetUI, which I will of course be doing once I have Chocolatey installed at its 'default' location.

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[GabrielDuf]

Thanks for the report. This is a bug on our side.

Older UniGetUI versions bundled Chocolatey and set a user-level ChocolateyInstall variable pointing to %LOCALAPPDATA%\UniGetUI\Chocolatey. We removed the bundled Chocolatey in #4638, but didn't clean up that variable on existing installations.

Chocolatey's installer respects this variable, which is why it still installs there even when UniGetUI isn't involved.

You can remove the leftover variable with PowerShell:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('ChocolateyInstall', $null, 'User')

I've also added a fix so that UniGetUI will automatically remove this leftover environment variable on startup if it's still present for the next release.