Fixed Error 1909 and NPM works but I keep getting a weird error before NPM runs.

[andrew-vicencio]

Version: 6.10.0 and NPM 4.3.0/3.10.10
Platform: 32-bit Windows

I was able to fix Error 1909 using the instructions in #8141. I created an npm folder in %APPDATA% and running npm install npm -g in command line while running as administrator. I also changed the environment variable from C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\ to C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs.

So NPM is now installed in %APPDATA% and the enviro var is correct but I keep getting an error before NPM runs. You can see it in the first screen shot below. In the second screen shot, you can see that I can install the latest version (4.3.0) but when I run npm -v, it still says that it is version 3.10.10

I can't find anybody else with the same problem and I don't know what to do from here. Any help would be great, thank you.

Error:
'CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" prefix -g' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[watilde]

Hello! This issue seems same with the following issue reports:

• Prefix -g' is not recognized as an internal or external command... npm/npm#15891
• npm-cli.js prefix -g is not recognized npm/npm#12924

Can you possibly make sure your environment variable called ComSpec as a single value?

[andrew-vicencio]

@watilde It had one value but it also had a semi colon. I don't know if that would really change anything but thank you! There are no errors now.

[watilde]

@andrew-vicencio That's great! Happy to hear that.
As we see the similar issues, it's better to report it to npm repository for next time btw :)

Closing as resolved.