Installation Help - Work with Admin restrictions

[JamesPyle1978]

What is the correct process for installing when you are on a work computer without admin rights? I have set this up twice before but this time I am running into errors. I wrote instuctions but those don't seem to be working this time.

For reference, I am installing nvm/node and then Stencil (for my Big Commerce theme/store).

So I remove old traces of nvm, login as admin.
I run nvm-setup and I choose to install in users\username\appdata\local (my user folders, not the admin)
on the symlink step I just use c:\nvm4\ or whatever the default is.

This works. Then I install node with npm 18 and use npm 18 (this part works)

When I do my Theme -stencil init step, this is when I get an error about a file missing but I don't think it's an issue with my github or the theme or Big Commerce but maybe nvm/node is not fully installed or the symlink isn't working or maybe the system variables.

This always worked before. Any ideas? The only thing I Forgot to try which I THINK might have been an issue before is that I need to reboot after installing nvm-windows.

Is there a step I missed or something? I know I've done this twice or more and it worked but it's been months since then. I've seen some other similar posts but didn't find an answer.