Conda virtual environment not changing under Windows

Question

I have installed Anaconda 2.2.0 for Windows and created a virtual environment via:

> conda create -n my-env anaconda

The environment is

Answer 1

You command

activate astropy-dev

must be run from the D:\Anaconda directory. Then it should work. To check, type:

conda info -e

Answer 2

You don't need the .bat. It's just activate my-env.

Answer 3

If you are using Powershell, activate currently does not support it. You will need to modify your PATH manually, or else use the cmd shell.

Answer 4

Are you calling activate from within a batch script? Then it should be call activate my-env.