title: Why do I keep getting `Exit code 1` error while launching anything in Anaconda?
body: <p>Could anyone please help me out with this!!!</p>
  <p>Anaconda was working fine a while back but all of a sudden I am getting the following error:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7SiJY.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Navigator Screenshot</a></p>
  <p>After this I tried reinstalling it but it still resulted in the same.
  I even tried launching it through terminal and it resulted in this error report:</p>
  <pre><code>    Traceback (most recent call last):
        File &quot;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py&quot;, line 143, in main
          return activator_main()
        File &quot;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\activate.py&quot;, line 1222, in main
          print(activator.execute(), end='')
        File &quot;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py&quot;, line 19, in encode
          return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
      UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u202a' in position 452: character maps to &lt;undefined&gt;
  
  `$ C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\Scripts\conda-script.py shell.powershell activate env1`
  
    environment variables:
                   CIO_TEST=&lt;not set&gt;
                  CONDA_EXE=C:/Users/TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000/anaconda3\Scripts\conda.exe
                 CONDA_ROOT=C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3
             CURL_CA_BUNDLE=&lt;not set&gt;
                   HOMEPATH=\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000
                       PATH=C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-
                            TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\Library\mingw-w64\bin;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-
                            TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-
                            TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\Library\bin;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-
                            TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\Scripts;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-
                            TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\bin;‪D:\chrom driver
                            d\chromedriver.exe;C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-
                            TGGBJKK.000\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;
               PSMODULEPATH=C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-
                            TGGBJKK.000\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\Program Files\Windo
                            wsPowerShell\Modules;C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Module
                            s
         REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=&lt;not set&gt;
              SSL_CERT_FILE=&lt;not set&gt;
  
       active environment : None
         user config file : C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\.condarc
   populated config files : C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\.condarc
            conda version : 4.12.0
      conda-build version : 3.21.8
           python version : 3.9.12.final.0
         virtual packages : __win=0=0
                            __archspec=1=x86_64
         base environment : C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3  (writable)
        conda av data dir : C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\etc\conda
    conda av metadata url : None
             channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                            https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
            package cache : C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\pkgs
                            C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\.conda\pkgs
                            C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
         envs directories : C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\envs
                            C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\.conda\envs
                            C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
                 platform : win-64
               user-agent : conda/4.12.0 requests/2.27.1 CPython/3.9.12 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.19044
            administrator : False
               netrc file : None
             offline mode : False
  
  
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  Invoke-Expression : At line:1 char:2
  + [y/N]:
  +  ~
  Missing ] at end of attribute or type literal.
  At line:1 char:4
  + [y/N]:
  +    ~
  You must provide a value expression following the '/' operator.
  At line:1 char:4
  + [y/N]:
  +    ~~~
  Unexpected token 'N]:' in expression or statement.
  At C:\Users\TEMP.DESKTOP-TGGBJKK.000\anaconda3\shell\condabin\Conda.psm1:107 char:9
  +         Invoke-Expression -Command $activateCommand;
  +         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [Invoke-Expression], ParseException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : EndSquareBracketExpectedAtEndOfAttribute,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeExpressionC
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  </code></pre>