title: How do I get rid of error "'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command" when running 'npm install' for MEAN stack?
body: <p>downloaded mean stck zip from mean.io
  did an npm install
  after few minutes I got an error. Please see screenshot. what do I do?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/200Yj.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/200Yj.png" alt="screenshot"></a></p>
  
  <pre><code>npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/event-emitter/-/event-e
  mitter-0.2.2.tgz
  
  &gt; mean@1.0.0 postinstall C:\ss\D1\google\04\mean\mean-stack
  &gt; ./node_modules/bower/bin/bower install
  
  '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
  operable program or batch file.
  npm ERR! weird error 1
  npm ERR! not ok code 0
  </code></pre>