ENOENT indicate npm ERR! errno -4058

Just started React coding and you get errno -4058.

C:\Users\Wout>create-react-app my-app

Creating a new React app in C:\Users\Wout\my-app.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...

npm ERR! path C:\Users\Wout\my-app\node_modules\abab
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 'C:\Users\Wout\my-app\node_modules\abab' -> 'C:\Users\Wout\my-app\node_modules\.abab.DELETE'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Wout\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-03-14T15_21_11_867Z-debug.log

Instead of create-react-app my-app, run it like npx create-react-app my-app. If error still exists, run ‘npm install -g npm’. Then, run npx create-react-app my-app again.

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