Extracting hardware drivers from an .exe installer package

Windows 10 Home 21H2 19044.1526, 64-bit

Hello:

I want to update the drivers for my Nvidia graphics card. Nvidia installs a lot of extra stuff that I don't want or need, so I want just the drivers. I followed instructions in a tutorial https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/install-only-the-driver-for-nvidia-graphics-cards/ to update from Device Manager, loading just drivers from files/folders extracted from the .exe driver release package. That is supposed to get just the drivers and not the other apps, tasks, dlls, etc. that running the package's setup.exe would install.

However, it didn't work for me. I updated from within Device Manager, but I still got all the extra Nvidia stuff. I extracted the files from the driver release via a different method. I want to know if that makes a difference.

The tutorial author used Bandizip to extract the files. Another source used 7Zip. Whereas, I ran the package .exe, let it extract the files, and then did not allow the setup.exe to run to install everything.

Is that result the same? Does launching a driver release package .exe to extract the files do the same thing as using an archive tool such as Bandizip or 7Zip?