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

I had the same problem and after trying many solutions, including the above, I finally managed to solve it.

First, open command prompt(Administrator) and input:

set CONDA_DLL_SEARCH_MODIFICATION_ENABLE=1

Then, launch the Spyder IDE, always using the command prompt by simply inputting:

spyder

It is important to always launch spyder with the command prompt. If you launch Spyder with the Anaconda Navigator, it will still give you the error message.