'ng' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Question

I tried running npm install -g angular-cli

I also tried adding it to the Enviorment Variables under PATH: (C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node

Answer 1

What worked for me was that I was missing an file

.npmrc

which is located under

C:\Users\username

That file should contain

prefix=$(APPDATA)\npm

Also my environment path was pointing to my admin user