title: Getting Error 404 while running npm install create-react-app
body: <p>Getting error <code>404</code> while running <code>npm install create-react-app</code> or <code>npm install -g npm@latest</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>0 info it worked if it ends with ok
  1 verbose cli [ 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
  1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
  1 verbose cli   'install',
  1 verbose cli   'create-react-app' ]
  2 info using npm@5.6.0
  3 info using node@v8.11.3
  4 verbose npm-session 1f3eafc1b2f09e93
  5 silly install loadCurrentTree
  6 silly install readLocalPackageData
  7 http fetch GET 404 http://registry.npmjs.org/create-react-app 66ms
  8 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for create-react-app@latest 404 Not Found: create-react-app@latest
  9 verbose stack Error: 404 Not Found: create-react-app@latest
  9 verbose stack     at fetch.then.res (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\pacote\lib\fetchers\registry\fetch.js:42:19)
  9 verbose stack     at tryCatcher (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\util.js:16:23)
  9 verbose stack     at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:512:31)
  9 verbose stack     at Promise._settlePromise (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:569:18)
  9 verbose stack     at Promise._settlePromise0 (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:614:10)
  9 verbose stack     at Promise._settlePromises (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:693:18)
  9 verbose stack     at Async._drainQueue (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:133:16)
  9 verbose stack     at Async._drainQueues (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:143:10)
  9 verbose stack     at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:17:14)
  9 verbose stack     at runCallback (timers.js:810:20)
  9 verbose stack     at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:768:5)
  9 verbose stack     at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:745:5)
  10 verbose cwd M:\Projects\TestApps\ReactApp
  11 verbose Windows_NT 6.1.7601
  12 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "create-react-app"
  13 verbose node v8.11.3
  14 verbose npm  v5.6.0
  15 error code E404
  16 error 404 Not Found: create-react-app@latest
  17 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
  </code></pre>