diff --git a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/services/PowershellService.cs b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/services/PowershellService.cs
index 6904c0d66..9e1622634 100644
--- a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/services/PowershellService.cs
+++ b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure.app/services/PowershellService.cs
@@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ public void prepare_powershell_environment(IPackage package, ChocolateyConfigura
             Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("chocolateyChecksum64", null);
             Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("chocolateyChecksumType32", null);
             Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("chocolateyChecksumType64", null);
+            Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("chocolateyForceX86", null);
 
             // we only want to pass the following args to packages that would apply. 
             // like choco install git --params '' should pass those params to git.install,