Windows (7) Install without Admin Rights?

[Chicken Soup]

Hey Team,

Is it possible to install and run Node on Windows without admin rights? Can it just be downloaded into a directory, unzipped, and run from there?

A friend doesn't have admin rights on his Windows 7 machine, but wants to run Node.

Thanks for your help!

Chicken :)

[Adil Hasan]

Hello,
I've not done it on Windows, but maybe this is of help?
http://howtonode.org/how-to-install-nodejs
hth
adil

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[XiongJia Le]

There are 2 parts of the NODEJS Windows installer.

1. NODE.exe
First, You need download the binary (.exe)  from http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/ and save it to your local folder. (For x64: http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/x64/ )
Second, add your local folder to your PATH Environment.

2. NPM
First, downloads the NPM from http://nodejs.org/dist/npm/ (You can select a stable version in this folder. )
Second, extract the .zip/.tgz to your local folder and add this folder to you PATH Environment.

[Jasdeep Khalsa]

Thanks XiongJia Le!

Even a year on this was still very useful advice for me to install Node.js and NPM without having to be a Windows administrator.

This was particularly important for me for two reasons:

(1) Only some people in the company are admins

(2) In order to use Yeoman, node and npm must be installed without requiring admin rights

For Ubuntu and other systems people usually follow this gist to help install node and npm without requiring 'sudo': https://gist.github.com/isaacs/579814.