# Run Node-red on Windows10

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [13 March 2022 22:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816 "2022-03-13T22:25:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![fredshortlv129bis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@fredshortlv129bis](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/fredshortlv129bis)\
**Post date:** [13 March 2022 22:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/1 "2022-03-13T22:25:27Z")

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After a while of inactivity, I try to connect to Node-Red again, but I cannot access Node-Red and my previous flows. I accidentally deleted my desktop shortcuts.  
[http://127.0.0.1:1880](http://127.0.0.1:1880) does not help.  
I cannot find my previous questions on the forum. That would probably help me too.  
JackDG

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**Author:** ![HaroldPetersInskipp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/haroldpetersinskipp/32/42319_2.png) [@HaroldPetersInskipp](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/HaroldPetersInskipp)\
**Post date:** [13 March 2022 22:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/2 "2022-03-13T22:57:52Z")

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What command are you using to start node-red? Or are you running it as a service?

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**Author:** ![BartButenaers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bartbutenaers/32/10476_2.png) [@BartButenaers](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BartButenaers)\
**Post date:** [13 March 2022 23:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/3 "2022-03-13T23:05:53Z")

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> [@fredshortlv129bis](#):
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> I cannot find my previous questions

Do you mean [this](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/address-unreachable/49205/3) one? But that seemed to be on a Raspberry PI, instead of windows 10?

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**Author:** ![fredshortlv129bis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@fredshortlv129bis](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/fredshortlv129bis)\
**Post date:** [13 March 2022 23:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/4 "2022-03-13T23:46:38Z")

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Indeed, in the meantime I have also been able to determine that those questions were about an application on a Raspberry Pi.

In the meantime, I have also found how to retrieve my previous posts (after logging in).

I am going to try to run Node-Red again on the Raspberry Pi.

Thank you for your efforts.

Jack

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [14 March 2022 09:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/5 "2022-03-14T09:46:39Z")

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If you do want to run on Windows 10, there are plenty of threads in the forum about it and how to start it as a Windows Service. Personally I run it manually under PM2 as I use it as a development environment.

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**Author:** ![fredshortlv129bis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@fredshortlv129bis](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/fredshortlv129bis)\
**Post date:** [14 March 2022 22:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/6 "2022-03-14T22:09:28Z")

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Finally, I managed to restart Node-Red as before on the Rasp Pi. However, without my Flows that I made before.  
Can that still be fixed, please?  
I can't remember exactly which command I used, but I ran 'Node-Red start' twice and suddenly it started up with '[http://host:1880](http://host:1880)' or initially with the link '[http://127.0.01:1880](http://127.0.01:1880)'. All this reached the limit of my ability.

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [14 March 2022 22:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/7 "2022-03-14T22:39:30Z")

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The command is `node-red --safe` note that’s two dashes before the word ‘safe’.

Without the dashes, you told node-red to start using a flow file called ‘start’ which would be empty.

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**Author:** ![fredshortlv129bis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@fredshortlv129bis](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/fredshortlv129bis)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2022 10:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/8 "2022-03-15T10:59:10Z")

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I running it as a service on a Raspberry Pi 3.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2022 11:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/run-node-red-on-windows10/59816/9 "2022-03-15T11:47:53Z")

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The command to start node red as a service on a Pi (though I am not sure what this has to do with the title of this thread) is  
`node-red-start`  
and to tell node-red to start automatically on boot  
`sudo systemctl enable nodered`  
That assumes that you used the [recommended method](https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/raspberrypi) of installing node-red.