I could not install or start Vue cli.. no matter what I try it kept giving me error

The issue is related to antivirus. After disabling the antivirus the error was not seen and I was able to run vue cli command.

This seems to be a known issue but not much documentation found anywhere except a comment on stackoverflow.

  // on Windows, A/V software can lock the directory, causing this
  // to fail with an EACCES or EPERM if the directory contains newly
  // created files.  Try again on failure, for up to 60 seconds.

  // Set the timeout this long because some Windows Anti-Virus, such as Parity
  // bit9, may lock files for up to a minute, causing npm package install
  // failures. Also, take care to yield the scheduler. Windows scheduling gives
  // CPU to a busy looping process, which can cause the program causing the lock
  // contention to be starved of CPU by node, so the contention doesn't resolve.
  if (platform === "win32") {
    fs.rename = (function (fs$rename) { return function (from, to, cb) {
      var start = Date.now()
      var backoff = 0;
      fs$rename(from, to, function CB (er) {
        if (er
            && (er.code === "EACCES" || er.code === "EPERM")
            && Date.now() - start < 60000) {
          setTimeout(function() {
            fs.stat(to, function (stater, st) {
              if (stater && stater.code === "ENOENT")
                fs$rename(from, to, CB);
              else
                cb(er)
            })
          }, backoff)
          if (backoff < 100)
            backoff += 10;
          return;
        }
        if (cb) cb(er)
      })
    }})(fs.rename)
  }