BootCamp trying to install Nvidia drivers on 2011 MacBook

Hi all,
I had BootCamp installed on my MacBook5,1 and moved the hard drive over to my new MacBookPro8,1. Uninstalled BootCamp and tried to reinstall with the newest BootCamp drives included with the MacBook Pro. Here's where the problem starts:
After starting the BootCamp install, an Nvidia display driver installer immediately comes up. It never does anything, and, as far as Task Manager can tell, isn't doing anything. My guess is this is because the MacBookPro has an Intel display adapter, not Nvidia. But I'm not sure why Nvidia is even coming up. Perhaps because I used to have an Nvidia driver when it was in the old computer?
Thank you for any suggestions.

I am not sure you can use Nvidia or ATI directly, that you need to use laptop2go modded drivers instead.
Normally, you uninstall and delete the old graphic driver, reboot in safe mode, use Driver Sweeper to uninstall, and delete the driver which should be at the top level of "C:" as \Nvidia\....
Don't use the 180.xx if you have Nvidia either, stick with 178.xx I think, but check laptop2go forums.

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