'ng new' or 'ng init' fails with error message of 'Error'

[StrangeCargo74]

Please provide us with the following information:

1. OS? Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

Windows 10 x64

1. Versions. Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please run
   in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.15
node: 6.6.0
os: win32 x64

1. Repro steps. Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you
   do on your code? etc.

ng new ng-test-app

1. The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some
   more information.

'Error' in red, nothing else. Tried verbose switch, still no more info.

1. Mention any other details that might be useful.

I'm at Angular Connect and I've seen some beautiful demos and workshops. Should I buy a mac?

Also, it took me probably two days to install the cli prior to the workshop I was doing. Man this is difficult to install. I banged my head on python, node versions, ms build locations, node-gyp errors, adding a blank angular-cli.json and shasum check fails. Ouch!

I've done the uninstall / npm clean / reinstall cycle plenty of times.

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[StrangeCargo74]

I worked round this by copying an angular-cli.json from another project into a blank directory, and running ng init then. Works now!

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