npm update check failed

Question

Last night I tried to update my node and npm, it seemed to have been successful, however ever since then I have been getting this same error any time I try and run any npm c

Answer 1

Running the cmd with admin rights once was enough for me. Just did npm version.

After that it worked again also without admin rights. I did not delete anything.

{
  npm: '6.13.6',
  node: '12.14.1',
  ...
}