Anaconda navigator not working

[Rob Cliffe]

I'm afraid I can't help at all, but I have many times (well, it feels 
like many) encountered the
     "%1 is not a valid Win32 application"
error message.  It looks like a format string that has not been given an 
argument to format.
I would guess it's a bug either in Windows or somewhere in Python.
Can anybody shed light on this?
Best wishes
Rob Cliffe
PS I have a very vague idea it's to do with mixing 32-bit and 64-bit 
software.

On 20/06/2021 05:21, Liya Ann Sunny wrote:
> After installing Anaconda, I tried to open the anaconda navigator but it did not work.
> When i check in anaconda prompt by running code
>>>> anaconda
> it got error like this
> (base) C:\Users\Acer>anaconda
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "C:\Users\Acer\anaconda3\Scripts\anaconda-script.py", line 6, in <module>
>      from binstar_client.scripts.cli import main
>    File "C:\Users\Acer\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
>      from .utils import compute_hash, jencode, pv
>    File "C:\Users\Acer\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\utils\__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
>      from .config import (get_server_api, dirs, load_token, store_token,
>    File "C:\Users\Acer\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\utils\config.py", line 54, in <module>
>      USER_LOGDIR = dirs.user_log_dir
>    File "C:\Users\Acer\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\utils\appdirs.py", line 257, in user_log_dir
>      return user_log_dir(self.appname, self.appauthor,
>    File "C:\Users\Acer\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\utils\appdirs.py", line 205, in user_log_dir
>      path = user_data_dir(appname, appauthor, version); version = False
>    File "C:\Users\Acer\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\utils\appdirs.py", line 67, in user_data_dir
>      path = os.path.join(_get_win_folder(const), appauthor, appname)
>    File "C:\Users\Acer\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\utils\appdirs.py", line 284, in _get_win_folder_with_pywin32
>      from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell
> ImportError: DLL load failed while importing shell: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
>
> what is its solution?