NPM still installs global modules into Nodist directory after uninstalling Nodist in Windows

Question

I've used Nodist in the past to have multiple node versions on my workstation, but I no longer needed it, so I've uninstalled Nodist with chocolatey.

However, whenever I install global packages via npm i -g packagename, it still installs it under C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist and I can't get rid of it. The prefix in the npmrc file still points to the correct directory (npm directory under AppData/Roaming).

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

I was able to fix the error by just deleting the .npmrc file located in the user's folder (C:\Users\{username}\.npmrc). I found that by following this stack overflow post about the .npmrc config file.