NPM not showing in Powershell

[fervent folio]

i went to https://nodejs.org/en/download/prebuilt-installer downloaded node went through the installation but npm -v in powershell doesnt work i have probably installed it wrong its been a while since ive installed Node.js as i had it on my old pc when a first made my discord bot now ive moved the code over to a new pc but need node , npm etc

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[heady mortar]

node, npm and such is installed, but Powershell is preventing you to use it because npm command is actually a Powershell script, which by default unsigned ones are can't be run without changing the execution policy

If you're on Windows 11, Go to Settings > System > For Developers and at around the bottom you'll see PowerShell option, expand it and tick the box.

Maybe enabling Developer Mode from the same page might work and you might want to try that instead but not sure.

[heady mortar]

If you are on Windows 10, open a terminal as an administrator and type this: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned. This command is essentially what this replied message does.