

The Node installer installs, directly into the npm folder, a special piece of Windows-specific configuration that tells npm where to install global packages. (See also the point below if you're running Windows 7 and don't have the directory %appdata%\npm.) A brief note on the built-in Windows configuration Copy the npmrc file back into %ProgramFiles%\nodejs\node_modules\npm.This will tell the new npm where the global installed packages are.


Option 1: edit your Windows installation's PATH to put %appdata%\npm before %ProgramFiles%\nodejs. On your PATH, it will always use the version of npm installed with node instead of the version of npm you installed using npm -g install get around this, you can do one of the following: Npm's globally installed packages (including, potentially, npm itself) are stored separately in a user-specific directory (which is currently By default, npm is installed alongside node in
