Terminal 'ionic start' gives npm ERR

I am trying to start my first ionic project (based on VUE, on a windows machine, with Visual Studio Code as text editor and terminal), following the steps on How to Install The Ionic Framework CLI to Build Mobile Apps

I tried reinstalling nodejs, tried uninstalling ionic > npm cache clear --force > reinstall, as well as launching Visual Studio Code in admin mode. Keep getting same error below. I am out of options, any advice?

? Starter template: blank
√ Preparing directory .\myapp in 1.41ms
√ Downloading and extracting blank starter in 320.71ms
> ionic integrations enable capacitor --quiet -- myapp io.ionic.starter
> npm.cmd i --save -E @capacitor/core@latest
npm WARN config global `--global`, `--local` are deprecated. Use `--location=global` instead.
npm WARN ERESOLVE overriding peer dependency
npm ERR! code ECONNRESET
npm ERR! network aborted
npm ERR! network This is a problem related to network connectivity.
npm ERR! network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settings.
npm ERR! network
npm ERR! network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! network 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-07-18T02_58_39_592Z-debug-0.log
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess npm.

        npm.cmd i --save -E @capacitor/core@latest exited with exit code 1.

        Re-running this command with the --verbose flag may provide more information.

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> npm.cmd i
npm WARN config global `--global`, `--local` are deprecated. Use `--location=global` instead.
npm WARN ERESOLVE overriding peer dependency
npm ERR! code ERR_SSL_DECRYPTION_FAILED_OR_BAD_RECORD_MAC
npm ERR! 13168:error:1408F119:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:decryption failed or bad record mac:c:\ws\deps\openssl\openssl\ssl\record\ssl3_record.c:677:
npm ERR!

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-07-18T02_59_54_033Z-debug-0.log
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess npm.

        npm.cmd i exited with exit code 1.

        Re-running this command with the --verbose flag may provide more information.

Hi
Just out of curiosity- are you in a corporate network or something similarly heavily secured? With firewalls and sonon?

No just regular home wifi with regular windows 10 firewall (not even antivirus software running on this device). I also tried disabling windows firewall, as well as making sure nodejs has exceptions in ‘allow apps through firewall settings’.

Ok not sure what helps here. Maybe someone else can chip in

Can u post ionic info here? (From the project directory)

And I reckon you kniw you should not use elevated permissions to install stuff with npm (as administrator)

It’s your network. restart network and see if that helps.

I am not sure what was the step actually helped, but I cleared ionic, nodejs, restarted my network, did fresh installation on nodejs again, ionic installation from admin powershell, ionic start on C:\ folder and finally ionic serve didn’t give the error and launched as a blank. I will now keep working on tutorials to try to build the app and check whether ionic serve will keep working. Thanks for all the answers.