Fix Chocolatey "Access is Denied"

Question

I just installed Chocolatey for the first time using this command in an admin cmd:

@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

Admin cmd output:

Getting latest version of the Chocolatey package for download.
Getting Chocolatey from https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/chocolatey/0.10.13.
Extracting C:\Users\CurrentUser\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocInstall\chocolatey.zip to C:\Users\CurrentUser\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocInstall...
Installing chocolatey on this machine
Creating ChocolateyInstall as an environment variable (targeting 'Machine')
  Setting ChocolateyInstall to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey'
WARNING: It's very likely you will need to close and reopen your shell
  before you can use choco.
Restricting write permissions to Administrators
We are setting up the Chocolatey package repository.
The packages themselves go to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib'
  (i.e. C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\yourPackageName).
A shim file for the command line goes to 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin'
  and points to an executable in 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\yourPackageName'.

Creating Chocolatey folders if they do not already exist.

WARNING: You can safely ignore errors related to missing log files when
  upgrading from a version of Chocolatey less than 0.9.9.
  'Batch file could not be found' is also safe to ignore.
  'The system cannot find the file specified' - also safe.
WARNING: Not setting tab completion: Profile file does not exist at
'C:\Users\CurrentUser\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1'.
WARNING: Unable to run Chocolately at this time.  It is likely that .Net Framework installation requires a system reboot
Chocolatey (choco.exe) is now ready.
You can call choco from anywhere, command line or powershell by typing choco.
Run choco /? for a list of functions.
You may need to shut down and restart powershell and/or consoles
 first prior to using choco.
Ensuring chocolatey commands are on the path
Ensuring chocolatey.nupkg is in the lib folder

After restarting my cmd I still can't access choco commands:

Their doesn't seem to be documentation on why this happens. How can I fix it?

@JanStanstrup I still don't have a solution to this. I ended up using nuget to get what I need instead. This was for DocFX — Jmaurier, May 10 '19 at 18:30

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '20 at 01:38

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run your command prompt as administration then run command "choco install nodejs"

answered Mar 19 '20 at 01:38

pavan kumar

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The description indicates they ran it as administrator. I came here with the same problem as the OP, @Jose De Gouveia's answer helped. – Chad Blomquist Mar 17 '21 at 20:20

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '19 at 07:59

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This is related probably to antivirus, in my case was Sophos and needed to add choco as a whitelist

answered Oct 22 '19 at 07:59

Jose De Gouveia

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Fix Chocolatey "Access is Denied"

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