[FIXED] Unable to set up Jupyter Notebook

Issue

I am having a couple problems setting up Jupyter Notebook. I have been over the documentation many times and still haven't gotten it working. I am running Anaconda on my Windows 7 (and 10 on my other computer - having same problem) workstation. I am unable to open Jupyter Notebooks easily. I have tried the following in the cmd prompt: ipython notebook, jupyter notebook, jupyter-notebook, ipython, and jupyter and I get 'XXXXXX' is not recognized as an internal or external command. I can cd into C:\Anaconda3\Scripts and then run jupyter notebook and it works. There are two problems with this: First, it's a band-aid that just covers up an underlying problem and second it opens to C:\Anaconda3\Scripts and I can't navigate to where my .ipynb files are. I don't have an IPython Notebook launcher icon to change to directory per the follow instructions:

• Copy the IPython Notebook launcher from the menu to the desktop.
• Right click on the new launcher and change the “Start in” field by pasting the full path of the folder which will contain all the notebooks.

I also have spyder install and it appears to be working perfectly.

In my C:\Anaconda3\Scripts folder, I see everything I would expect: ipython.exe, jupyter.exe, jupyter-notebook.exe, and a lot more. My path variables contain everything I've seen suggested online: C:\Anaconda3;C:\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\Anaconda3\Library\bin These were added automatically from the installation so I don't think there's a typo.

Any thoughts you have would be appreciated. Thank you!

Solution

I just needed to restart the computer. That fixed everything.

Answered By - jss367