joyent/node — Issue #2207: Move npm files into %appdata% on windows 7 / vista
Author: klovadis
Created: 2011-11-27 18:05:48+00:00
State: open

After installing node using the .msi installer, node is being installed into the "Program Files (x86)" folder, where node does not have any permissions. Thus when using npm, you cannot install global modules, because node cannot write into the "Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules" folder.

Instead, node.exe should store and look for npm modules somewhere in the user %appdata% folder.