Ionic Cordova on Windows 7 cannot create project

Question

Straight to the point, I am trying to learn and play around with Ionic development.

Installed Node.js

and

npm install -g cordova ionic

, seems to install successfully , i can see the version. Now when i run the command ionic start , the folder gets created but after that i am getting a message Downloading and extracting starter after a few seconds it just stops. Then when i cd into the newly created directory i found nothing.

So what i have tried, i uninstalled cleaned and reinstalled node and cordova ionic for around 10 times, searched left and right of google and i am unable to find solution (Maybe i am not searching properly) . I am running Windows 7 sp1 ultimate edition, Turned off firewall ,restarted the system a few times . Nothing i am unable to move from this step, any Ideas, I am adding pictures for the reference.

any help and pointers will be greatly appreciated. What i am doing wrong ??? this is a home system and i am definitely not behind a proxy.

[EDIT] as per the comment i tried and here is the result

EDIT today once again i retried with ionic now i am seeing different error

Answer 1

A successful ionic start should look like below:

Looks like for some reason this command doesn't complete on your machine. Not sure what goes wrong for you, but as an alternative to ionic start , you can try downloading the starter project yourself through github. Just install git , and then type:

git clone https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-starter-sidemenu.git