# Node-red on Windows10 quits immediately
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965
**Category:** General
**Created:** [20 May 2021 08:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965 "2021-05-20T08:15:39Z")
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### Author:  [@janek](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/janek)
#### Post date: [20 May 2021 08:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965/1 "2021-05-20T08:15:40Z")
Just installed nodejs and nodered on Win10 following the instruction and it quits immediately after start. What is the fix?
C:\WINDOWS\system32\>node-red
20 May 18:11:33 - [info]
# Welcome to Node-RED
20 May 18:11:33 - [info] Node-RED version: v1.3.5
20 May 18:11:33 - [info] Node.js version: v14.17.0
20 May 18:11:33 - [info] Windows\_NT 10.0.19042 x64 LE
20 May 18:11:34 - [info] Loading palette nodes
20 May 18:11:35 - [info] Dashboard version 2.23.2 started at /ui
C:\WINDOWS\system32
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### Author:  [@minhhn0205](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/minhhn0205)
#### Post date: [20 May 2021 09:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965/2 "2021-05-20T09:14:17Z")
Did you edit the file `settings.js` or change anything in the folder _C:\Users\.node-red_ ?
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [20 May 2021 09:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965/3 "2021-05-20T09:19:11Z")
How did you install it? It hasn't got as far as telling you what userDir folder it is using and I'm wondering whether your installation/user doesn't have access to the folder?
You may find some additional info by hunting through the event logs though that is often a very painful process.
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### Author:  [@janek](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/janek)
#### Post date: [20 May 2021 10:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965/4 "2021-05-20T10:04:27Z")
It's on Windows10
I followed the instruction from here:
1. install nodejs and as result:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\>node -v
v14.17.0
C:\WINDOWS\system32\>npm -v
6.14.13
2) from cmd as Administrator I executed:
```auto
npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red
```
1. in C:\Users\Janek\AppData\Roaming\npm I have:
C:\Users\Janek\AppData\Roaming\npm\>ls
node-red node-red-pi node-red-pi.cmd node-red-pi.ps1 node-red.cmd node-red.ps1 node\_modules
2. when I run (as Administrator from command line)
C:\Users\Janek\AppData\Roaming\npm\>node-red
20 May 19:59:59 - [info]
# Welcome to Node-RED
20 May 19:59:59 - [info] Node-RED version: v1.3.5
20 May 19:59:59 - [info] Node.js version: v14.17.0
20 May 19:59:59 - [info] Windows\_NT 10.0.19042 x64 LE
20 May 20:00:00 - [info] Loading palette nodes
20 May 20:00:02 - [info] Dashboard version 2.23.2 started at /ui
C:\Users\Janek\AppData\Roaming\npm\>
I haven't done any editing
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### Author:  [@janek](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/janek)
#### Post date: [20 May 2021 10:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965/5 "2021-05-20T10:05:34Z")
sorry, instructions from here: [Running on Windows : Node-RED](https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/windows)
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [20 May 2021 10:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965/6 "2021-05-20T10:11:13Z")
Try starting it from your node-red folder (just as normal user cmd terminal window)
e.g cd to `c:\users\Janek\.node-red`
and then run
node-red
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### Author:  [@janek](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/janek)
#### Post date: [20 May 2021 10:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965/7 "2021-05-20T10:14:16Z")
After uninstalling and deleting everything and installing again it behaves ok. Solved. Thanks to everyone responding
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [3 June 2021 10:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-on-windows10-quits-immediately/45965/8 "2021-06-03T10:14:55Z")
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