How to completely remove node js from Windows

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I uninstalled my previous version of node js  0 8 11  and downloaded the latest  0 10 24 from the node js website and installed it  However  after running node --version  it still indicates that I m running v0 8 11  Obviously  some stuff was left behind during the uninstall process  and it s causing me to have all sorts of errors when trying to add modules through npm  I ve seen solutions to this for OSX and Linux  but couldn t find anything for Windows  I m running Windows 7 64-bit

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In my case  the above alone didn t work   I had installed and uninstalled several versions of nodejs to fix this error  npm in windows Error  EISDIR  read at Error  native   that I kept getting on any npm command I tried to run  including getting the npm version with   npm -v   So the npm directory was deleted in the nodejs folder and the latest npm version was copied over from the npm dist  and then everything started working

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I had the same problem with me yesterday and my solution is  1  uninstall from controlpanel not from your cli 2  download and install the latest or desired version of node from its website 3  if by mistake you tried uninstalling through cli  it will not remove completely most often  then you do not get uninstall option in cpanel in this case install the same version of node and then follow my 1  step  Hope it helps someone

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I actually had a failure in the Microsoft uninstall  I had installed node-v8 2 1-x64 and needed to run version node-v6 11 1-x64   The uninstalled was failing with the error   Windows cannot access the specified device  path  or file  or similar   I ended up going to the Downloads folder right clicking the node-v8 2 1-x64 MSI and selecting uninstall   this worked   Regards  Jon

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How to remove Node js from Windows    Take a deep breath  Run npm cache clean --force Uninstall from Programs  amp  Features with the uninstaller  Reboot  or you probably can get away with killing all node-related processes from Task Manager   Look for these folders and remove them  and their contents  if any still exist  Depending on the version you installed  UAC settings  and CPU architecture  these may or may not exist    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  C  Users  User  AppData Local Temp npm-   Check your  PATH  environment variable to ensure no references to Nodejs or npm exist  If it s still not uninstalled  type where node at the command prompt and you ll see where it resides -- delete that  and probably the parent directory  too  Reboot  for good measure

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I came here because the Remove button was not available from Add Remove programs  It was saying  Node js cannot be removed    This worked    Got the  msi of my installed Node version  Ran it to repair the installation just in case  Opened the Administrator command prompt and ran msiexec  uninstall  lt node msi gt

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Scenario   Removing NodeJS when Windows has no Program Entry for your Node installation  I ran into a problem where my version of NodeJS  0 10 26  could NOT be uninstalled nor removed  because Programs  amp  Features in Windows 7  aka Add Remove Programs  had no record of my having installed NodeJS    so there was no option to remove it short of manually deleting registry keys and files   Command to verify your NodeJS version  node --version  I attempted to install the newest recommended version of NodeJS  but it failed at the end of the installation process and rolled back   Multiple versions of NodeJS also failed  and the installer likewise rolled them back as well   I could not upgrade NodeJS from the command line as I did not have SUDO installed   SOLUTION  After spending several hours troubleshooting the problem  including upgrading NPM  I decided to reinstall the EXACT version of NodeJS on my system  over the top of the existing installation   That solution worked  and it reinstalled NodeJS without any errors   Better yet  it also added an official entry in Add Remove Programs dialogue   Now that Windows was aware of the forgotten NodeJS installation  I was able to uninstall my existing version of NodeJS completely   I then successfully installed the newest recommended release of NodeJS for the Windows platform  version 4 4 5 as of this writing  without a roll-back initiating   It took me a while to reach sucess  so I am posting this in case it helps anyone else with a similar issue

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Whatever Node js version you have installed  run its installer again  It asks you to remove Node js like this

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The best thing to do is to remove Node js from the control panel  Once deleted download the desired version of Node js and install it and it works

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