[Particle Official] Windows 10 Full CLI and DFU Setup

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Particle Cli not installing

I recently had problems reinstalling particle-cli (failure at serialport) but then I found these posts: and I followed the suggestion to do the npm install from the Visual Studio Command Prompt: Try running the npm install commands from a MSVS command prompt. Find it at Start menu > Microsoft Visual Studio 201X > Visual Studio Tools > Open Visual Studio 201X Tools Command Prompt or run the <Program Files>\<VS dir>\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat from a command prompt. and the installat…

got me going on both win 8 and win 10

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
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C:\Users\Brian>node -v
v4.1.2

C:\Users\Brian>npm -v
2.14.4

C:\Users\Brian>particle --version
1.8.22

C:\Users\Brian>npm list serialport -g --depth=0
C:\Users\Brian\AppData\Roaming\npm
└── serialport@2.0.2