Repository: create-react-app
Issue: create-react-app hangs/freezes on Windows 10 in system protected folders such as user Documents
Labels: needs triage,issue: bug report

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### Describe the bug

When using ```npx create-react-app``` on Windows in User Documents directory, the command gets stuck forever without any error output.

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### Which terms did you search for in User Guide?

Windows 10
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```
PS C:\Users\xxx\Documents> npx create-react-app --info

Environment Info:

  current version of create-react-app: 4.0.1
  running from C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\create-react-app

  System:
    OS: Windows 10 10.0.19042
    CPU: (24) x64 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
  Binaries:
    Node: 14.15.4 - C:\nodejs\node.EXE
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: 6.14.11 - C:\nodejs\npm.CMD
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 87.0.4280.141
    Edge: Spartan (44.19041.423.0), Chromium (87.0.664.75)
    Internet Explorer: 11.0.19041.1
  npmPackages:
    react: Not Found
    react-dom: Not Found
    react-scripts: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

PS C:\Users\xxx\Documents>
```

Additionally, system runs default Windows 10 virus protection without any third party security software.

"Controlled folder access" is turned on. (Might be relevant)

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1900202/104138150-35837580-5357-11eb-8805-543d05a18ae8.png)



### Steps to reproduce

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1. Install nodejs with node *.msi 64bit installer for Windows 10.
2. Open PowerShell in current user's Documents folder
3. Try create-react-app following the User Guide
4. Observe that:
```
PS C:\Users\xxx\Documents> mkdir abc
mkdir : Could not find file 'abc'.
At line:1 char:1
+ mkdir abc
+ ~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (C:\Users\xxx\Documents\abc:String) [New-Item], FileNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CreateDirectoryIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItemCommand

PS C:\Users\xxx\Documents> npx create-react-app abcdefg

(Program hangs here forever, without error output.)
```

### Expected behavior

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1. For the ```create-react-app``` itself, since this is possibly a permission or special security protection issue, it's OK that the creation fails, but I expect some error output similar to what ```mkdir``` does in this case.
2. For User Guide, a special reminder may be added for Windows 10 user to avoid system protected folders, if (1) cannot be fixed easily, or the OS error codes are difficult to understand for average users.



### Actual behavior

Program hangs forever without error output explaining if any underlying OS command or API failed.
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### References

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/8857