Windows 10, install NVM without admin rights

1. Create nvm directory and nvm\nodejs directory.

C:\Users\allen.kim1>mkdir nvm
C:\Users\allen.kim1>mkdir nvm\nodejs

2. Download nvm-noinstall.zip and extract to c:\users\allen.kim\nvm from nvm-window repo

3. Setup user-specific environment variables; NVM_HOME and NVM_SYMLINK

• NVM_HOME c:\Users\allen.kim1\nvm
• NVM_SYMLINK c:\users\allen.kim1\nvm\nodejs

4. Add two environment variables to a user PATH variable

5. Create c:\users\allen.kim1\nvm\settings.txt with the following contents

root: c:\Users\allen.kim1\nvm 
path: c:\Users\allen.kim1\nvm\nodejs
arch: 64 
proxy: none

6. Check if nvm command is working fine

> nvm list
> nvm install 16
> nvm install 14
> nvm