Windows Python Developers Had Better Setup Earlier (III): Add Anaconda Prompt on the Right-click Menu

Anaconda Prompt on Right-click menu of Windows makes things handy

The previous article shows how to add Anaconda Prompt on the Windows Terminal, which makes it easy to access the working directory. In this article, it introduces another way: adding Anaconda Prompt on right-click menu of Windows 10 or 11. This is the third part of the story series of “What Windows Python Developers Had Better Setup Earlier”, which includes the following contents:

Part(I): Windows Terminal
Part (II): Add Anaconda Prompt on the Windows Terminal
Part(III): Add Anaconda Prompt on the Right-Click Menu
Part(IV): Add Anaconda PowerShell Prompt on the Windows Terminal
Part(V): Add Anaconda PowerShell Prompt on the Right-Click Menu

Table of Contents

1. Why Adding Anaconda Prompt on the Right-click Menu

By adding Anaconda Prompt on the Right-click, one can start Anaconda Prompt directly from the current working directory. For example, we access the folder wavelet analysis in the Drive D: on my computer.

Fig.1. Start Anaconda Prompt from the Working Directory.

Then just right-click the mouse and hit Open in Anaconda Prompt. The Anaconda Prompt tab will open, and we are already in the current working directory. If you want to start, say Jupyter notebook, you just type Jupyter notebook in the opened Anaconda Prompt and then press enter.

Now let’s see how to add Anaconda Prompt on the Right-click of Windows in the next section.

2. How to add Anaconda Prompt on the Right-click

I will the divide it into the following steps. The first few steps are the same as what it does for adding Anaconda Prompt on the Windows Terminal. I briefly summary the process so that you need not look for them in another article, especially you just want to add Anaconda Prompt on the Right-click.

Step 1: Search Anaconda Prompt

Type Anaconda Prompt on the search box of Windows 10 or 11
Right click to open the location
Right click Anaconda Prompt
Hit Properties
Copy the path in Target

Fig.3. Search the path of `Anaconda Prompt`

Step 2: Edit the target

Open any text file editor, such as MS Word, text, and whatever, and past what you just copied into it. It is something looks like follows, but where my PC user name is Sigmund which is different from yours:

%windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" C:\Users\Sigmund\anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\Users\Sigmund\anaconda3

Edit it and just keep the following information:

cmd.exe /K C:\Users\yourusename\anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat

Step 3: Copy Path of Anaconda Navigator Icon

Type Anaconda navigator on the search box of Windows 10 or 11
Right click to open the location
Right click on Anaconda navigator(anaconda3)
Right click Properties
Click Change icon

Copy icon path into text editor, it looks as the follows:
%USERPROFILE%\anaconda3\Menu\anaconda-navigator.ico

Step 4: Add key values to Registry

Run Registry Editor (regedit.exe)

Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > Directory >Background > shell
Add a key named Anaconda Prompt and
Set its value to Open in Anaconda Prompt
Add a subkey called command, and
Set its value to cmd.exe /K C:\Users\Sigmud\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat
Change the path to wherever your Anaconda installation is.

Step 5: Add Anaconda navigator icon

go to Anaconda prompt level
In the right window, add a new string value named Icon, and
Set its value to %USERPROFILE%\anaconda3\Menu\anaconda-navigator.ico

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