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I have installed Gitbash for windows version 2.7 and installed nodejs 5.5 on windows 7 64 bit machine.

when I try to run 

 node -v

i get the the error msg

Error 0x2 starting node.exe -v

I am not sure why is this happening, I uninstalled and re installed both node and git, restarted my system and checked my env variables. everything seems fine. My PATH env variable in 'User Environment variable' looks like this.

C:\Users\<userid>\.dnx\bin;C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\npm ;C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\npm

Any idea why is this happening?

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I realize that npm was missing in my PATH variable. somehow, nodejs didn't add its value to my PATH Variable more info here

After adding it to my USER PATH variable. Everything seems working.

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I encountered this error after reinstalling node.js without restarting my Git bash session. After closing and reopening the terminal, everything worked fine.

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I had this issue. Turns out that node had been extracted an extra file deep - so it was node12.x.x-win-x86/node12.x.x-win-x86 and my system was confused when i tried to call it.

Fixed my issue by changing the name of the exterior folder, then moving the internal folder out one. Didn’t even need to update %path% as I’d got that right the first time.

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