nvm-windows: ERROR open \settings.txt: The system cannot find the file specified.

Issue: After installing nvm (from WinGet in this case) and before restarting the terminal, attempting to use nvm will fail.

Now, you might think that restarting the terminal is a simple action the user can do but when you are trying to automate the installation of a bunch of apps and developer tools, it’s not a viable solution to restart the terminal.

Running nvm at this point will fail with the expected error:

nvm: The term 'nvm' is not recognised as the name of...

So the next step would be to invoke nvm directly, which fails with this error:

PS C:\Users\User> C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\nvm\nvm.exe install latest

ERROR open \settings.txt: The system cannot find the file specified.

How To Reproduce:

1. Use WinGet to install nvm winget install --id=CoreyButler.NVMforWindows -e
2. Attempt to run nvm directly as the terminal session will not have the updated %PATH%
3. Get weird error about missing settings.txt

Expected Behaviour:

It should be possible to automate the installation of developer tooling including nvm without needing to restart the terminal and thus no longer be possible to automate.

Screenshots:

Desktop:

• OS: Windows 11 - not tried on Windows 10, probably the same.

Additional context:

• I also raised an issue here about the possibility of Windows Terminal or WinGet just doing the right thing and refreshing the environment variables: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/3077
• I saw this other issue with the same error, but the suggested fix of running as admin made no difference: https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/issues/929

If this is some hard to fix error, could it be possible to add an argument to nvm which accepts a path of the settings file to use?