Anaconda prompt stuck at "Executing Transaction"

Question

I'm relatively new to Python and using an anaconda 3 installation on a Windows 10 machine. I've never used the Anaconda prompt beyond conda installing a few packages and
conda update --all. Today I used the latter statement again, but the prompt is stuck at
Executing Transaction: \
with the backslash going around in circles for the past hour. Please suggest what I can do.

I checked this link but it seems to be specific to Dash, which wasn't in the list of libraries to be updated/installed.
Conda stuck on Executing Transaction

Answer 1

Please try to run anaconda prompt as Administrator, this will resolve your problem..