{"id":6581,"date":"2019-07-01T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2019-07-01T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:08:18","slug":"fixing-missing-anaconda-prompt-start-menu-shortcut-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6581","title":{"rendered":"Fixing missing &#8216;Anaconda Prompt&#8217; start menu shortcut on windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge user of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anaconda.com\/distribution\/\">Anaconda Python<\/a> and the way I usually get access to the Anaconda Prompt is to start typing &#8216;Anaconda&#8217; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/help\/4028221\/windows-10-locating-the-search-box-in-windows-10\">Windows search box<\/a> and click on the link as soon as it pops up. Easy and convenient. Earlier today, however, the Windows 10 menu shortcuts for the Anaconda command line vanished from my machine!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly what triggered this but I was heavily messing around with various environments, including the base one, and also installed Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition with all the Python extensions before I noticed that the menu shortcuts had gone missing. No idea what the root cause was.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, getting my\u00a0<strong>Anaconda Prompt<\/strong>\u00a0back was very straightforward:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>launch Anaconda Navigator<\/li>\n<li>Click on\u00a0<strong>Environments<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Selected\u00a0<strong>base (root)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Choose\u00a0<strong>Not installed\u00a0<\/strong> from the drop down list<\/li>\n<li>Type for <strong>console_<\/strong> in the search box<\/li>\n<li>Check the\u00a0<strong>console_shortcut\u00a0<\/strong>package<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Apply\u00a0<\/strong>and follow the instructions to install the package<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/console_shortcut.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/console_shortcut-1024x291.png\" alt=\"console_shortcut\" width=\"1024\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/console_shortcut-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/console_shortcut-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/console_shortcut-768x218.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge user of Anaconda Python and the way I usually get access to the Anaconda Prompt is to start typing &#8216;Anaconda&#8217; in the Windows search box and click on the link as soon as it pops up. Easy and convenient. Earlier today, however, the Windows 10 menu shortcuts for the Anaconda command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-python"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}