"Unsupported 16-Bit Application" on Windows: your npm CLI is a stub, here's the fix
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You install a CLI with npm. The install finishes with no errors. Then you run the command and Windows answers with a dialog about a 16-bit application...... which is a strange thing to hear on a 64-bit machine in 2026. I ran into this on my own box and spent way too long blaming the wrong things. H…
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- 2026-09-10 17:19 · DEV Community — AI
"Unsupported 16-Bit Application" on Windows: your npm CLI is a stub, here's the fix