title: Problem installing npm express on windows
body: <p>this is my first time working with npm and I can't seem to install express. I have reviewed other questions on SO but the errors that I am getting seem to be a bit different.</p>
  <pre><code>$ npm install express
  npm WARN config global `--global`, `--local` are deprecated. Use `--location=global` instead.
  npm ERR! code ECONNREFUSED
  npm ERR! syscall connect
  npm ERR! errno ECONNREFUSED
  npm ERR! FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/express failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 104.16.16.35:443
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.&lt;anonymous&gt; (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\minipass-fetch\lib\index.js:130:14)
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:527:28)
  npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:454:9)      
  npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:539:35)
  npm ERR!     at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:157:8)
  npm ERR!     at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:122:3)       
  npm ERR!     at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)
  npm ERR!  FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/express failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 104.16.16.35:443
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.&lt;anonymous&gt; (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\minipass-fetch\lib\index.js:130:14)
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:527:28)
  npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:454:9)      
  npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:539:35)
  npm ERR!     at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:157:8)
  npm ERR!     at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:122:3)       
  npm ERR!     at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21) {
  npm ERR!   code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  npm ERR!   errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  npm ERR!   syscall: 'connect',
  npm ERR!   address: '104.16.16.35',
  npm ERR!   port: 443,
  npm ERR!   type: 'system',
  npm ERR!   requiredBy: '.'
  npm ERR! }
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
  npm ERR! '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\TE493874\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-08-05T12_25_29_151Z-debug-0.log
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am using a corporate laptop so this is perhaps where the issue lies. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>