The system cannot find the path specified - Anaconda

by GarciaPL on Thursday 5 March 2020

I have installed Anaconda recently on my Windows 10 at work. I have been playing with it for a while, but then I have decided to uninstall it. Without restarting my computer, after a few days, I have decided to install Anaconda once again as I have found that I need it at the end.

I was astonished that after starting Power Shell or Cmder which emulates terminal as well, I was started getting an error listed below. It was very annoying as somehow some features like Scoop [1] and even Maven stopped working!


The system cannot find the path specified


Unfortunately, Windows 10 was not able to tell me which path he struggles with at this point. I started digging in the web to find out that the main reason for whole fuss was Anaconda which supposes to be deleted completely after the restart of PC which did not happen obviously.


Solution

Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun 

using Register Editor and clear found value. I presume that whatever you are going to find might be related to Anaconda as it was so in my case.



[1] Scoop - https://scoop.sh