I am running VS Code 1.74 on a Windows 10 OS. I also have installed Node.js v18.12.1. I attempted to run a basic "Hello World" JS program in VS Code using both the cmd terminal and the powershell ...

13 verbose exit [ 1, true ] What's going wrong? How can the CLI team reproduce the problem? supporting information: npm -v prints: node -v prints: npm config get registry prints: Windows, OS X/macOS, ...

If the NODE.dll file is missing, corrupted, not found or failed to load on Windows 11/10, then do the two things mentioned in this post.