Under the bin folder you will find the npm.cmd file. This is the very important step everyone misses, go to C:\Tools\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\ folder.Now go to C:\Tools\nodejs\ (in your case which ever the folder you copied the node.exe file), create a folder called, node_modules then copy the entire folder npm folder from the previous step the node_modules folder.Extract the zip file and rename the extracted folder to npm.You can find the zip file under downloads section at the bottom of the page.
Go to site, then download the latest stable version of NPM.In my case, I created a folder named nodejs under the Tools folder in the root of my C drive ( C:\Tools\nodejs\). Now copy the file node.exe to your favourite location.Go to site, then from the downloads table download the 32-bit or 64-bit binary/binaries (not installer files) depending on your operating system.Step 1: Get node binary (node.exe) from site I am going to provide the instructions for windows we can follow the same process for other operating systems (macOS, Linux). They miss one critical step, in this blog post I am going to provide instructions step by step how to use Node and NPM without installation or admin rights.
There are a lot of blog posts explaining this already, but most of them didn’t work for me.