
<h2>You'll often see following error when running npm command at windows OS system.</h2>
<pre class="language-xml">'Gulp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 
</pre>
<pre class="language-xml">'Bower' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
</pre>
<pre class="language-xml">'yo' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
</pre>
<p>Basically you have to add to <code>Path</code> to Environment Variables's <code>Path</code>.</p>
<h3>How to enable gulp?</h3>
<p>For gulp, you will have to add following path to Path System Variables, so command line will recognize npm's global path. Also install gulp so run command as gulp will be recognized. At the end, you'll have to restart the command line if you have not restart command line after change the system variables.</p>
<ul>
<li>Add path to windows System Variables</li>
<ul>
<li>%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm</li>
<li>C:\Program Files\nodejs\</li>
</ul>
<li>Run npm install command to install gulp</li>
<ul>
<li><code>npm install -g gulp</code></li>
</ul>
<li>Restart windows command line.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to enable bower?</h3>
<p>If you already setup gulp, then the only think you have to do is run npm for bower as global.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>npm install -g bower</code></li>
</ul>
<h3>Git is not recognized too?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Go to windows' Enviroment Variables and edit the the path variables, make sure contains following path also make sure following location Git is actually exist.</li>
<ul>
<li>Could be either these&nbsp;</li>
<ul>
<li><code>%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Git\bin</code></li>
<li><span style="font-family: monospace;">%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Git\cmd</span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: monospace;">Or Maybe&nbsp;</span></li>
<ul>
<li><code>%PROGRAMFILES%\Git\bin</code></li>
<li><span style="font-family: monospace;">%PROGRAMFILES%\Git\cmd</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<h3>How to enable yo?</h3>
<p>It is the same as bower at this point, you will need to install yeoman as globally.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>npm install -g yo</code></li>
</ul>
<p>If you can't install yo and command line display error contains as <code>If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the 'proxy' config is set properly</code>. Try run <code>npm config ls -l</code>, this command will show all the config setting for npm, check the proxy, if the proxy is <code>null</code>, change it to <code>http://registry.npmjs.org/ </code> as following command.</p>
<pre class="language-xml">npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/
</pre>
<h2>Still not working!?</h2>
<p>Before trying to figure out what's happening, restart your command line again, might works. Also, it is better to use Node.js command prompt.</p>

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<h1>If you can't install windows 10, hopefully following download link from microsoft could help you!</h1>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li><a class="btn btn-default" href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=616935">Download Tool Now (32-bit version)</a></li>
<li><a class="btn btn-default href=" href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=616936" target="_blank">Download Tool Now (64-bit version)</a></li>
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<p>With changing hosts file, you can mapping specific hostname to point to your own ip address, or let hostname to point to specific ip address at your current computer. For example, I want dev-mysite.com to point to my local machine will be following.</p>
<pre class="language-javascript">127.0.0.1           localhost</pre>
<p>Another example, I want to google.com host name to point to ipaddress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</p>
<pre class="language-javascript">xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx     google.com</pre>
<p>Following are comment from Microsoft.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.&nbsp;</p>
<footer>From windows hosts file comment</footer></blockquote>
<p class="alert">after you changed hostname to point to specific ip address, you might have to type <code>ipconfig /flushdns</code> at command line.</p>
<p>References</p>
<h6><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ipconfig.mspx?mfr=true">ipconfig from microsoft</a></h6>
<h6><a href="http://linux.die.net/man/5/hosts">Linux hosts file</a></h6>

With changing hosts file, you can mapping specific hostname to point to your own ip address, or let hostname to point to specificip address at your current computer. For example, I want dev-mysite.com to point to my local machine will be following.

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<p>So you setup windows server 2010 / 2012 task scheduler to run your application and you didn't see anything updated.&nbsp;</p>
<p>However, when you run the application manually and finish successfully. It might many different issue that cause the application not run but you can read this blog as reference to try few way here.</p>
<h2>Add correct local policies</h2>
<p>One way is go to <em>Local Security Policy - Local Policies - User Rights Assignment - Log on as a batch job</em> Check to see your user is there or not.</p>
<p>You can reference following for detail.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/Windows_Server_2008/Q_28424297.html" target="_blank">http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/Windows_Server_2008/Q_28424297.html</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Add <em>Start in (optional)</em> at Job Actioni tab</h2>
<p>By default, task schedular will run application with <code>/sytem32/</code> folder. I don't think that's the application location, so you can go Task Schedular, open your job. Open Actions tabl, at Start in (optional), type the application path.</p>

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