Anaconda Installation: ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value

Question

I installed anaconda and setup a new environment from a yml file.

That is fine.

Then i tried to open the prompt window of my new environment and i get the following output every single time.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>SET DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1

C:\WINDOWS\system32>SET MSSdk=1

C:\WINDOWS\system32>SET platform=

C:\WINDOWS\system32>IF /I [AMD64] == [amd64] set "platform=true"

C:\WINDOWS\system32>IF /I [] == [amd64] set "platform=true"

C:\WINDOWS\system32>if defined platform (set "VSREGKEY=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0" ) ELSE (set "VSREGKEY=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0" )

C:\WINDOWS\system32>for /F "skip=2 tokens=2,*" %A in ('reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0" /v InstallDir') do SET "VSINSTALLDIR=%B" ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>if "" == "" (set "VSINSTALLDIR=" )

C:\WINDOWS\system32>if "" == "" ( ECHO "WARNING: Did not find VS in registry or in VS140COMNTOOLS env var - your compiler may not work" GOTO End ) "WARNING: Did not find VS in registry or in VS140COMNTOOLS env var - your compiler may not work" The system cannot find the batch label specified - End

I have no clue how to fix this. Any help ?

Answer 1

As suggested by @Arpan removing vs2015_compiler_vars from $CONDAHOME/etc/conda/activate.d helped.

Answer 2

My answer is about showing the steps of the proposed solution of @Arpan and that is deleting the batch file named "vs2015_compiler_vars".

How I managed to solve this in Windows

1) Set option to view hidden files

2) Go to this location

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\tensorflow_env\etc\conda\activate.d

3) Delete batch file named "vs2015_compiler_vars"

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How I think to solve this in Linux

Find the file named "vs2015_compiler_vars" and delete it.

As sugested by @Arpan, the file may be found at

$CONDAHOME/etc/conda/activate.d