Message “the term ‘ng’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet”

The first path in the path variable needs to be the NPM path. Opening the Node.js command prompt I found that the ng command worked there. I dug into the shortcut and found that it references a command to ensure the first Path variable is NPM.
To Fix:

  1. Right Clicked on My Computer (windows)
  2. Selected Advanced System Settings
  3. Clicked “Environment Variables”
  4. Under “Path” variable, made the FIRST value listed %AppData%\npm

Once I did that I was able to close powershell and reopen and all worked.

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