# Installed Anaconda on W11, Doesn't Work

**URL:** <https://forum.anaconda.com/t/installed-anaconda-on-w11-doesnt-work/92748>\
**Category:** Anaconda & Miniconda\
**Created:** [February 23, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/installed-anaconda-on-w11-doesnt-work/92748 "2025-02-23T09:56:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Patrick2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db6015/32.png) [@Patrick2](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Patrick2)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/installed-anaconda-on-w11-doesnt-work/92748/1 "2025-02-23T09:56:38Z")

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I installed the latest Anaconda on my 2024 Windows 11 Laptop. That seemed to work, but no shortcuts were installed on my desktop. I was able to execute anaconda by having it come up when I click on an old Python file I have. But an attempted execution of Spyder failed immediately. Now what?

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**Author:** ![Vivian24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c2df01/32.png) [@Vivian24](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Vivian24)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/installed-anaconda-on-w11-doesnt-work/92748/2 "2025-02-27T03:16:14Z")

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The same problem 😅 Is there someone can help us on this issue?

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**Author:** ![Patrick2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db6015/32.png) [@Patrick2](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Patrick2)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/installed-anaconda-on-w11-doesnt-work/92748/3 "2025-02-27T04:35:06Z")

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I turned off my antivirus thing and installed it again. Now spyder will execute but it “can’t start kernel.” I found a discouragingly long dialog of attempts to fix this. I’ll wait until I feel like trying to fix this, which could be forever. There could be better ways than Python of accomplishing my goals. I think I’ll just make models in real life instead of messing with computer programs. It will be easier and better result.

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**Author:** ![Vivian24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c2df01/32.png) [@Vivian24](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Vivian24)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2025, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/installed-anaconda-on-w11-doesnt-work/92748/4 "2025-03-02T09:23:29Z")

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Thank you so much for the feedback. I fixed this problem just selected to install the Anaconda package as the administrator. Hope it also works for you 😁

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**Author:** ![Patrick2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db6015/32.png) [@Patrick2](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Patrick2)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/installed-anaconda-on-w11-doesnt-work/92748/5 "2025-03-03T02:33:36Z")

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Aha I will try that. I’ve never become administrator before so we’ll see how that goes.

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**Author:** ![infantologist](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/user_avatar/forum.anaconda.com/infantologist/32/6223_2.png) [@infantologist](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/infantologist)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/installed-anaconda-on-w11-doesnt-work/92748/6 "2025-06-07T21:32:39Z")

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There are incompatibilities between conda \<=25.0 and Windows Powershell 7.5.  
conda 25.1 does fix these but it is shocking that there hasn’t been a new version of the anaconda installer to solve this. I know windows users are 2nd class citizens for all things data science but there must be a lot of us affected by this.