npm hangs on any command

Question

I installed last version of Node.js (12.2 x64 windows) After I run cmd as administrator and try to call any npm command (except npm -v

Answer 1

For clarity, when you call:

npm config set prefix 'c:\npm'

you are required to have the ' wrapping the path, but you need to remove them from the .npmrc file so that npm commands will work. So your resulting line in .npmrc file should look like:

prefix="c:\\npm"