Jupyter Notebook shortcut not appearing in windows 10 start menu under Anaconda

[mallik3006]

Issue:
Jupyter Notebook shortcut disappeared from windows 10 start menu under Anaconda.
conda 4.7.12

Environment (conda list):

$ conda list
# packages in environment at C:\Users\malli\Anaconda3:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
_anaconda_depends         2019.03                  py37_0
_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf    0.1.0                    py37_0
_tflow_select             2.3.0                       mkl
absl-py                   0.8.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
alabaster                 0.7.12                     py_0    conda-forge
anaconda                  custom                   py37_1
anaconda-client           1.7.2                      py_0    conda-forge
anaconda-navigator        1.9.7                    py37_0
anaconda-project          0.8.3                      py_0    conda-forge
argh                      0.26.2                py37_1001    conda-forge
asn1crypto                1.2.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
astor                     0.7.1                      py_0    conda-forge
astroid                   2.3.3                    py37_0    conda-forge
astropy                   3.2.3            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
astunparse                1.6.2                    pypi_0    pypi
atomicwrites              1.3.0                      py_0    conda-forge
attrs                     19.3.0                     py_0    conda-forge
autopep8                  1.4.4                      py_0    conda-forge
babel                     2.7.0                      py_0    conda-forge
backcall                  0.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
backports                 1.0                        py_2    conda-forge
backports.os              0.1.1                 py37_1001    conda-forge
backports.shutil_get_terminal_size 1.0.0                      py_3    conda-forge
bcrypt                    3.1.7            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
beautifulsoup4            4.8.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
bitarray                  1.1.0            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
bkcharts                  0.2                      py37_0
blas                      1.0                         mkl
bleach                    3.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
blosc                     1.17.0               h6538335_1    conda-forge
bokeh                     1.4.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
boto                      2.49.0                     py_0    conda-forge
bottleneck                1.3.1            py37hc8d92b1_0    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.8                hfa6e2cd_1    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2019.11.28           hecc5488_0    conda-forge
cachetools                3.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
catboost                  0.20                     py37_0    conda-forge
certifi                   2019.11.28               py37_0    conda-forge
cffi                      1.13.2           py37hb32ad35_0    conda-forge
chardet                   3.0.4                 py37_1003    conda-forge
click                     7.0                        py_0    conda-forge
cloudpickle               1.2.2                      py_1    conda-forge
clyent                    1.2.2                      py_1    conda-forge
colorama                  0.4.3                      py_0    conda-forge
colour                    0.1.5                    pypi_0    pypi
comtypes                  1.1.7                 py37_1000    conda-forge
conda                     4.7.12                   py37_1    conda-forge
conda-build               3.18.11                  py37_0    conda-forge
conda-package-handling    1.6.0            py37h2fa13f4_1    conda-forge
configparser              4.0.2                    pypi_0    pypi
console_shortcut          0.1.1                         3
contextlib2               0.6.0.post1                py_0    conda-forge
cryptography              2.8              py37hb32ad35_1    conda-forge
cssselect                 1.0.3                    pypi_0    pypi
curl                      7.65.3               h4496350_0    conda-forge
cycler                    0.10.0                     py_2    conda-forge
cython                    0.29.14          py37h6538335_0    conda-forge
cytoolz                   0.10.1           py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
dask                      2.9.0                      py_0    conda-forge
dask-core                 2.9.0                      py_0    conda-forge
decorator                 4.4.1                      py_0    conda-forge
defusedxml                0.6.0                      py_0    conda-forge
diff-match-patch          20181111                   py_0    conda-forge
dill                      0.3.1.1                  pypi_0    pypi
distributed               2.9.0                      py_0    conda-forge
docutils                  0.15.2                   py37_0    conda-forge
entrypoints               0.3                   py37_1000    conda-forge
et_xmlfile                1.0.1                   py_1001    conda-forge
fastcache                 1.1.0            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
filelock                  3.0.10                     py_0    conda-forge
flake8                    3.7.9                    py37_0    conda-forge
flask                     1.1.1                      py_1    conda-forge
freetype                  2.10.0               h563cfd7_1    conda-forge
fsspec                    0.6.1                      py_0    conda-forge
future                    0.18.2                   py37_0    conda-forge
gast                      0.2.2                      py_0    conda-forge
geojson                   2.5.0                    pypi_0    pypi
get_terminal_size         1.0.0                h38e98db_0
gevent                    1.4.0            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
gitdb2                    2.0.6                    pypi_0    pypi
gitpython                 3.0.3                    pypi_0    pypi
glob2                     0.7                        py_0    conda-forge
google-api-core           1.8.0                    pypi_0    pypi
google-auth               1.6.3                    pypi_0    pypi
google-cloud-vision       0.36.0                   pypi_0    pypi
google-pasta              0.1.8                      py_0    conda-forge
googleapis-common-protos  1.5.8                    pypi_0    pypi
greenlet                  0.4.15           py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
grpcio                    1.19.0                   pypi_0    pypi
h5py                      2.10.0          nompi_py37h422b98e_100    conda-forge
hdf5                      1.10.5          nompi_ha405e13_1104    conda-forge
heapdict                  1.0.1                      py_0    conda-forge
html5lib                  1.0.1                      py_0    conda-forge
icc_rt                    2019.0.0             h0cc432a_1
icu                       64.2                 he025d50_1    conda-forge
idna                      2.8                   py37_1000    conda-forge
imageio                   2.6.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
imagesize                 1.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
imbalanced-learn          0.6.0                      py_0    conda-forge
importlib_metadata        1.2.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
intel-openmp              2019.4                      245
intervaltree              3.0.2                      py_0    conda-forge
ipykernel                 5.1.3            py37h5ca1d4c_0    conda-forge
ipython                   7.10.1           py37h5ca1d4c_0    conda-forge
ipython_genutils          0.2.0                      py_1    conda-forge
ipywidgets                7.5.1                      py_0    conda-forge
isort                     4.3.21                   py37_0    conda-forge
itsdangerous              1.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
jdcal                     1.4.1                      py_0    conda-forge
jedi                      0.14.1                   py37_0    conda-forge
jinja2                    2.10.3                     py_0    conda-forge
joblib                    0.14.0                     py_0    conda-forge
jpeg                      9c                hfa6e2cd_1001    conda-forge
json5                     0.8.5                      py_0    conda-forge
jsonschema                3.2.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
jupyter                   1.0.0                      py_2    conda-forge
jupyter-contrib-core      0.3.3                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyter-contrib-nbextensions 0.5.1                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyter-highlight-selected-word 0.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyter-latex-envs        1.4.6                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyter-nbextensions-configurator 0.4.1                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyter_client            5.3.4                    py37_0
jupyter_console           6.0.0                      py_0    conda-forge
jupyter_core              4.6.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab                1.2.3                      py_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab_server         1.0.6                      py_0    conda-forge
keras                     2.3.1                    pypi_0    pypi
keras-applications        1.0.8                      py_1    conda-forge
keras-preprocessing       1.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
keyring                   19.2.0                   py37_0    conda-forge
kiwisolver                1.1.0            py37he980bc4_0    conda-forge
krb5                      1.16.3            hdd46e55_1001    conda-forge
lazy-object-proxy         1.4.3            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
libarchive                3.3.3             hd0049e4_1007    conda-forge
libblas                   3.8.0                    14_mkl    conda-forge
libcblas                  3.8.0                    14_mkl    conda-forge
libclang                  9.0.0           default_hf44288c_4    conda-forge
libcurl                   7.65.3               h4496350_0    conda-forge
libiconv                  1.15              hfa6e2cd_1005    conda-forge
liblapack                 3.8.0                    14_mkl    conda-forge
liblief                   0.9.0                ha925a31_2
libmklml                  2019.0.5                      0
libpng                    1.6.37               h7602738_0    conda-forge
libprotobuf               3.11.1               h1a1b453_0    conda-forge
libsodium                 1.0.17               h2fa13f4_0    conda-forge
libspatialindex           1.9.3                he025d50_1    conda-forge
libssh2                   1.8.2                h642c060_2    conda-forge
libtiff                   4.1.0                h21b02b4_1    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.9.10               h9ce36c8_0    conda-forge
libxslt                   1.1.33               heafd4d3_0    conda-forge
llvmlite                  0.30.0                   py37_0    conda-forge
locket                    0.2.0                      py_2    conda-forge
lxml                      4.4.2            py37heafd4d3_0    conda-forge
lz4-c                     1.8.3             he025d50_1001    conda-forge
lzo                       2.10              hfa6e2cd_1000    conda-forge
m2w64-gcc-libgfortran     5.3.0                         6
m2w64-gcc-libs            5.3.0                         7
m2w64-gcc-libs-core       5.3.0                         7
m2w64-gmp                 6.1.0                         2
m2w64-libwinpthread-git   5.0.0.4634.697f757               2
markdown                  3.1.1                      py_0    conda-forge
markupsafe                1.1.1            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
matplotlib                3.1.2                    py37_1    conda-forge
matplotlib-base           3.1.2            py37h2981e6d_1    conda-forge
mccabe                    0.6.1                      py_1    conda-forge
menuinst                  1.4.16                   py37_0    conda-forge
missingno                 0.4.2                    pypi_0    pypi
mistune                   0.8.4           py37hfa6e2cd_1000    conda-forge
mkl                       2019.4                      245
mkl-service               2.3.0            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
mkl_fft                   1.0.15           py37hc8d92b1_1    conda-forge
mkl_random                1.1.0            py37he350917_0    conda-forge
mock                      3.0.5                    py37_0    conda-forge
more-itertools            8.0.2                      py_0    conda-forge
mpld3                     0.3                      pypi_0    pypi
mpmath                    1.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
msgpack-python            0.6.2            py37he980bc4_0    conda-forge
msys2-conda-epoch         20160418                      1
multipledispatch          0.6.0                      py_0    conda-forge
navigator-updater         0.2.1                    py37_0
nbconvert                 5.6.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
nbdime                    1.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
nbextensions              0.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
nbformat                  4.4.0                      py_1    conda-forge
networkx                  2.4                        py_0    conda-forge
nltk                      3.4.4                      py_0    conda-forge
nose                      1.3.7                 py37_1003    conda-forge
notebook                  6.0.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
numba                     0.46.0           py37he350917_1    conda-forge
numexpr                   2.7.0            py37h6538335_0    conda-forge
numpy                     1.17.3           py37hc71023c_0    conda-forge
numpy-base                1.17.4           py37hc3f5095_0
numpydoc                  0.9.1                      py_0    conda-forge
oauthlib                  3.0.1                    pypi_0    pypi
olefile                   0.46                       py_0    conda-forge
openpyxl                  3.0.1                      py_0    conda-forge
openssl                   1.1.1d               hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
opt_einsum                3.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
packaging                 19.2                       py_0    conda-forge
pandas                    0.25.3           py37he350917_0    conda-forge
pandas-datareader         0.7.0                    pypi_0    pypi
pandoc                    2.8.1                         0    conda-forge
pandocfilters             1.4.2                      py_1    conda-forge
paramiko                  2.7.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
parsel                    1.5.1                    pypi_0    pypi
parso                     0.5.1                      py_0    conda-forge
partd                     1.0.0                      py_0    conda-forge
path.py                   12.0.2                     py_0    conda-forge
pathlib2                  2.3.5                    py37_0    conda-forge
pathtools                 0.1.2                      py_1    conda-forge
patsy                     0.5.1                      py_0    conda-forge
pep8                      1.7.1                      py_0    conda-forge
pexpect                   4.7.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
pickleshare               0.7.5                 py37_1000    conda-forge
pillow                    6.2.1            py37h5fcff3f_1    conda-forge
pip                       19.0.3                   pypi_0    pypi
pixiedust                 1.1.17                   pypi_0    pypi
pkginfo                   1.5.0.1                    py_0    conda-forge
plotly                    4.3.0                    pypi_0    pypi
pluggy                    0.12.0                     py_0    conda-forge
ply                       3.11                       py_1    conda-forge
powershell_shortcut       0.0.1                         2
prometheus_client         0.7.1                      py_0    conda-forge
prompt_toolkit            2.0.10                     py_0    conda-forge
protobuf                  3.7.0                    pypi_0    pypi
psutil                    5.6.7            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
py                        1.8.0                      py_0    conda-forge
py-lief                   0.9.0            py37ha925a31_2
pycodestyle               2.5.0                      py_0    conda-forge
pycosat                   0.6.3           py37hfa6e2cd_1002    conda-forge
pycparser                 2.19                     py37_1    conda-forge
pycrypto                  2.6.1           py37hfa6e2cd_1003    conda-forge
pycurl                    7.43.0.3         py37h636d3bd_1    conda-forge
pydispatcher              2.0.5                    pypi_0    pypi
pydocstyle                4.0.1                      py_0    conda-forge
pydot                     1.4.1                    pypi_0    pypi
pydot-ng                  2.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
pydotplus                 2.0.2                    pypi_0    pypi
pyflakes                  2.1.1                      py_0    conda-forge
pygments                  2.5.2                      py_0    conda-forge
pylint                    2.4.4                    py37_0    conda-forge
pympler                   0.8                        py_0    conda-forge
pynacl                    1.3.0           py37h2fa13f4_1001    conda-forge
pyodbc                    4.0.27           py37h6538335_0    conda-forge
pyopenssl                 19.1.0                   py37_0    conda-forge
pyparsing                 2.4.5                      py_0    conda-forge
pyqt                      5.12.3           py37h6538335_1    conda-forge
pyqt5-sip                 4.19.18                  pypi_0    pypi
pyqtwebengine             5.12.1                   pypi_0    pypi
pyreadline                2.1                   py37_1001    conda-forge
pyrsistent                0.15.6           py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
pysocks                   1.7.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
pytables                  3.6.1            py37h26f9782_0    conda-forge
pytest                    5.3.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
pytest-arraydiff          0.3                        py_0    conda-forge
pytest-astropy            0.6.0                      py_0    conda-forge
pytest-astropy-header     0.1.1                      py_0    conda-forge
pytest-doctestplus        0.4.0                      py_0    conda-forge
pytest-openfiles          0.4.0                      py_0    conda-forge
pytest-remotedata         0.3.1                      py_0    conda-forge
python                    3.7.3                h510b542_1    conda-forge
python-dateutil           2.8.1                      py_0    conda-forge
python-graphviz           0.13                     pypi_0    pypi
python-jsonrpc-server     0.3.2                      py_0    conda-forge
python-language-server    0.31.2                   py37_0    conda-forge
python-libarchive-c       2.9                      py37_0    conda-forge
pytz                      2019.3                     py_0    conda-forge
pywavelets                1.1.1            py37hc8d92b1_0    conda-forge
pywin32                   225              py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
pywin32-ctypes            0.2.0                 py37_1000    conda-forge
pywinpty                  0.5.7                    py37_0    conda-forge
pyyaml                    5.2              py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
pyzmq                     18.1.1           py37h16f9016_0    conda-forge
qdarkstyle                2.7                        py_0    conda-forge
qt                        5.12.5               h7ef1ec2_0    conda-forge
qtawesome                 0.6.0                      py_0    conda-forge
qtconsole                 4.6.0                      py_0    conda-forge
qtpy                      1.9.0                      py_0    conda-forge
queuelib                  1.5.0                    pypi_0    pypi
requests                  2.22.0                   py37_1    conda-forge
requests-oauthlib         1.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
retrying                  1.3.3                    pypi_0    pypi
ripgrep                   11.0.2               h301d43c_3    conda-forge
rope                      0.14.0                     py_0    conda-forge
rsa                       4.0                      pypi_0    pypi
rtree                     0.9.1            py37hbf79ddb_0    conda-forge
ruamel_yaml               0.15.80         py37hfa6e2cd_1000    conda-forge
scikit-image              0.16.2           py37he350917_0    conda-forge
scikit-learn              0.22             py37h7208079_0    conda-forge
scipy                     1.3.1            py37h29ff71c_0
scrapy                    1.6.0                    pypi_0    pypi
seaborn                   0.9.0                      py_2    conda-forge
send2trash                1.5.0                      py_0    conda-forge
setuptools                42.0.2                   py37_0    conda-forge
simplegeneric             0.8.1                      py_1    conda-forge
singledispatch            3.4.0.3               py37_1000    conda-forge
sip                       4.19.18          py37h6538335_1    conda-forge
six                       1.13.0                   py37_0    conda-forge
sklearn-pandas            1.8.0                    pypi_0    pypi
smmap2                    2.0.5                    pypi_0    pypi
snappy                    1.1.7             h6538335_1002    conda-forge
snowballstemmer           2.0.0                      py_0    conda-forge
sortedcollections         1.1.2                      py_0    conda-forge
sortedcontainers          2.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
soupsieve                 1.9.4                    py37_0    conda-forge
sphinx                    2.2.2                      py_0    conda-forge
sphinxcontrib             1.0                      py37_1
sphinxcontrib-applehelp   1.0.1                      py_0    conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-devhelp     1.0.1                      py_0    conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp    1.0.2                      py_0    conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-jsmath      1.0.1                      py_0    conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-qthelp      1.0.2                      py_0    conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.3                      py_0    conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-websupport  1.1.2                      py_0    conda-forge
spyder                    4.0.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
spyder-kernels            1.8.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
sqlalchemy                1.3.11           py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
sqlite                    3.30.1               hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
statsmodels               0.10.2           py37hc8d92b1_0    conda-forge
sympy                     1.4                      py37_0    conda-forge
tblib                     1.4.0                      py_0    conda-forge
tensorboard               2.0.0              pyhb38c66f_1
tensorflow                2.0.0           mkl_py37he1bbcac_0
tensorflow-base           2.0.0           mkl_py37hd1d5974_0
tensorflow-estimator      2.0.0              pyh2649769_0
termcolor                 1.1.0                      py_2    conda-forge
terminado                 0.8.3                    py37_0    conda-forge
testpath                  0.4.4                      py_0    conda-forge
tini                      3.0.1                    pypi_0    pypi
tk                        8.6.10               hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
toolz                     0.10.0                     py_0    conda-forge
tornado                   6.0.3            py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
tqdm                      4.40.0                     py_0    conda-forge
traitlets                 4.3.3                    py37_0    conda-forge
tweepy                    3.7.0                    pypi_0    pypi
ujson                     1.35            py37hfa6e2cd_1001    conda-forge
unicodecsv                0.14.1                     py_1    conda-forge
urllib3                   1.25.7                   py37_0    conda-forge
vc                        14.1                 h0510ff6_4
vs2015_runtime            14.16.27012          hf0eaf9b_0
w3lib                     1.20.0                   pypi_0    pypi
watchdog                  0.9.0                    py37_1    conda-forge
wcwidth                   0.1.7                      py_1    conda-forge
webencodings              0.5.1                      py_1    conda-forge
werkzeug                  0.16.0                     py_0    conda-forge
wheel                     0.33.6                   py37_0    conda-forge
widgetsnbextension        3.5.1                    py37_0    conda-forge
win_inet_pton             1.1.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
win_unicode_console       0.5                   py37_1000    conda-forge
wincertstore              0.2                   py37_1003    conda-forge
winpty                    0.4.3                         4    conda-forge
wordcloud                 1.5.0                    pypi_0    pypi
wrapt                     1.11.2           py37hfa6e2cd_0    conda-forge
xgboost                   0.90                     pypi_0    pypi
xlrd                      1.2.0                      py_0    conda-forge
xlsxwriter                1.2.6                      py_0    conda-forge
xlwings                   0.16.2                   py37_0    conda-forge
xlwt                      1.3.0                      py_1    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.4             h2fa13f4_1001    conda-forge
yaml                      0.2.2                hfa6e2cd_1    conda-forge
yapf                      0.28.0                     py_0    conda-forge
zeromq                    4.3.2                h6538335_2    conda-forge
zict                      1.0.0                      py_0    conda-forge
zipp                      0.6.0                      py_0    conda-forge
zlib                      1.2.11            h2fa13f4_1006    conda-forge
zstd                      1.4.4                hd8a0e53_1    conda-forge

Details about conda and system ( conda info ):

$ conda info
active environment : base
    active env location : C:\Users\malli\Anaconda3
            shell level : 1
       user config file : C:\Users\malli\.condarc
 populated config files : C:\Users\malli\.condarc
          conda version : 4.7.12
    conda-build version : 3.18.11
         python version : 3.7.3.final.0
       virtual packages :
       base environment : C:\Users\malli\Anaconda3  (writable)
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/abinit/win-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/abinit/noarch
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/matsci/win-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/matsci/noarch
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/win-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
                          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\malli\Anaconda3\pkgs
                          C:\Users\malli\.conda\pkgs
                          C:\Users\malli\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
       envs directories : C:\Users\malli\Anaconda3\envs
                          C:\Users\malli\.conda\envs
                          C:\Users\malli\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
               platform : win-64
             user-agent : conda/4.7.12 requests/2.22.0 CPython/3.7.3 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.17763
          administrator : False
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False

[pythonic2020]

I can confirm that installing notebook 6.0.3 from conda-forge into a conda Python 3.7.6 environment will NOT install a jupyter notebook Start Menu shortcut on Windows 10. Installing notebook from pkgs/main will install the shortcut.

[jakirkham]

There's probably something additional in their recipe. @mingwandroid, would you be able to give us a pointer here 🙂

[bollwyvl]

Looks like this is re-cherrypicked for each release:

AnacondaRecipes@1de7d98

[SvenSchiffner]

I still face the same issue. Is their any solution?

[pythonic2020]

I just made my own shortcuts and icons and paste them into the Start Menu folder whenever a conda-forge version of notebook is installed. They are overwritten whenever a conda pks-main version is installed.

[jakirkham]

Probably the solution here is for someone to open a PR adding the changes Nick referenced above ( #59 (comment) )

[mdebasrija]

Still facing the same issue. Neither is the icon on the start menu, nor is it opening.