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