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md-shah
md-shah

Reputation: 405

How to remove entire files and folders created for the nodejs and npm installation

I don't know what happend. All of a sudden, my nodeJS and npm started not responding and many errors popup and i reinstalled many times and not yet that works. When one problem solves, another rises. So i want to clean enitre setup files including in registery and other areas. Please someone help me.so i can reinstall node and npm.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4158

Answers (1)

mohan rathour
mohan rathour

Reputation: 430

To remove node from your window follow below instructions

1- Uninstall node from Programs & Features with the uninstaller.

2- Remove all the shortcuts like on task managers/ desktop etc

3-Reboot your system

4-Remove all the folder given below

C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodejs
C:\Program Files\Nodejs
C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\npm (or %appdata%\npm)
C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache (or %appdata%\npm-cache)
C:\Users\{User}\.npmrc (and possibly check for that without the . prefix too)

5-Remove from the environment variable via checking Path value

6-Open your command prompt try to run below command

where node

If it will show directories then delete all the directories

7-Reboot your system

8-Go to the node js side download or directly install the node from there.

Upvotes: 5

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