node.js npm error message - system cannot find the path specified

Question

I have a strange error message I don\'t understand or can\'t get rid of. Secondly when I try to create express app on webstorm it can\'t find express. I\'m using windows 7 6

Answer 1

I spent days figuring out how to fix this. Finally, using Process Monitor program, I found out:

1. npm was trying to access a file in %APPDATA%/Temp which no longer existed since I had uninstalled that program.
2. I searched the registry keys for this path and found that this path was included in the *Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1659004503-1897051121-1177238915-282167\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun* value.
3. Note that this was not under HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry directory as mentioned in the comments above.
4. After removing this registry key, everything works now.

Hope this helps.