The ordinal 242 could not be located in the dynamic link library Anaconda3\Library\bin\mkl_intel_thread.dll

Question

I have just installed Anaconda 5.3 64-bit (Anaconda3-5.3.0-Windows-x86_64) on Windows 10 and am getting this error when trying to run Spyder.

pythonw.exe

Answer 1

The quick answer:

set CONDA_DLL_SEARCH_MODIFICATION_ENABLE=1

I set a user environment variable for this.

The official answer is here.