Spyder won't launch after Anaconda installation

Actual Behavior

I downloaded Anaconda yesterday from here.

Attempting to open Spyder using the shortcut does nothing
Running spyder in Anaconda Prompt produces the following error:
Attempting to launch Spyder from Anaconda Navigator produces this loading bar (below) for a few seconds and then nothing:

Expected Behavior

Spyder should open successfully using any of the three methods above.

Steps to Reproduce

Try to open Spyder with the latest Anaconda installation.

Anaconda or Miniconda version:

Anaconda version 2019.03

Operating System:

Windows 10

`conda info`

``` active environment : base active env location : C:\Users\oli.dernie\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3 shell level : 1 user config file : C:\Users\oli.dernie\.condarc populated config files : C:\Users\oli.dernie\.condarc conda version : 4.6.14 conda-build version : 3.17.8 python version : 3.7.3.final.0 base environment : C:\Users\oli.dernie\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3 (writable) channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/win-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/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\oli.dernie\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\pkgs C:\Users\oli.dernie\.conda\pkgs C:\Users\oli.dernie\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs envs directories : C:\Users\oli.dernie\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs C:\Users\oli.dernie\.conda\envs C:\Users\oli.dernie\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs platform : win-64 user-agent : conda/4.6.14 requests/2.21.0 CPython/3.7.3 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.14393 administrator : False netrc file : None offline mode : False ```

`conda list --show-channel-urls`

``` # Name Version Build Channel _ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf 0.1.0 py37_0 defaults alabaster 0.7.12 py37_0 defaults anaconda 2019.03 py37_0 defaults anaconda-client 1.7.2 py37_0 defaults anaconda-navigator 1.9.7 py37_0 defaults anaconda-project 0.8.2 py37_0 defaults asn1crypto 0.24.0 py37_0 defaults astroid 2.2.5 py37_0 defaults astropy 3.1.2 py37he774522_0 defaults atomicwrites 1.3.0 py37_1 defaults attrs 19.1.0 py37_1 defaults babel 2.6.0 py37_0 defaults backcall 0.1.0 py37_0 defaults backports 1.0 py37_1 defaults backports.os 0.1.1 py37_0 defaults backports.shutil_get_terminal_size 1.0.0 py37_2 defaults beautifulsoup4 4.7.1 py37_1 defaults bitarray 0.8.3 py37hfa6e2cd_0 defaults bkcharts 0.2 py37_0 defaults blas 1.0 mkl defaults bleach 3.1.0 py37_0 defaults blosc 1.15.0 h7bd577a_0 defaults bokeh 1.0.4 py37_0 defaults boto 2.49.0 py37_0 defaults bottleneck 1.2.1 py37h452e1ab_1 defaults bzip2 1.0.6 hfa6e2cd_5 defaults ca-certificates 2019.1.23 0 defaults certifi 2019.3.9 py37_0 defaults cffi 1.12.2 py37h7a1dbc1_1 defaults chardet 3.0.4 py37_1 defaults click 7.0 py37_0 defaults cloudpickle 0.8.0 py37_0 defaults clyent 1.2.2 py37_1 defaults colorama 0.4.1 py37_0 defaults comtypes 1.1.7 py37_0 defaults conda 4.6.14 py37_0 defaults conda-build 3.17.8 py37_0 defaults conda-env 2.6.0 1 defaults conda-verify 3.1.1 py37_0 defaults console_shortcut 0.1.1 3 defaults contextlib2 0.5.5 py37_0 defaults cryptography 2.6.1 py37h7a1dbc1_0 defaults curl 7.64.0 h2a8f88b_2 defaults cycler 0.10.0 py37_0 defaults cython 0.29.6 py37ha925a31_0 defaults cytoolz 0.9.0.1 py37hfa6e2cd_1 defaults dask 1.1.4 py37_1 defaults dask-core 1.1.4 py37_1 defaults decorator 4.4.0 py37_1 defaults defusedxml 0.5.0 py37_1 defaults distributed 1.26.0 py37_1 defaults docutils 0.14 py37_0 defaults entrypoints 0.3 py37_0 defaults et_xmlfile 1.0.1 py37_0 defaults fastcache 1.0.2 py37hfa6e2cd_2 defaults filelock 3.0.10 py37_0 defaults flask 1.0.2 py37_1 defaults freetype 2.9.1 ha9979f8_1 defaults future 0.17.1 py37_0 defaults get_terminal_size 1.0.0 h38e98db_0 defaults gevent 1.4.0 py37he774522_0 defaults glob2 0.6 py37_1 defaults greenlet 0.4.15 py37hfa6e2cd_0 defaults h5py 2.9.0 py37h5e291fa_0 defaults hdf5 1.10.4 h7ebc959_0 defaults heapdict 1.0.0 py37_2 defaults html5lib 1.0.1 py37_0 defaults icc_rt 2019.0.0 h0cc432a_1 defaults icu 58.2 ha66f8fd_1 defaults idna 2.8 py37_0 defaults imageio 2.5.0 py37_0 defaults imagesize 1.1.0 py37_0 defaults importlib_metadata 0.8 py37_0 defaults intel-openmp 2019.3 203 defaults ipykernel 5.1.0 py37h39e3cac_0 defaults ipython 7.4.0 py37h39e3cac_0 defaults ipython_genutils 0.2.0 py37_0 defaults ipywidgets 7.4.2 py37_0 defaults isort 4.3.16 py37_0 defaults itsdangerous 1.1.0 py37_0 defaults jdcal 1.4 py37_0 defaults jedi 0.13.3 py37_0 defaults jinja2 2.10 py37_0 defaults jpeg 9b hb83a4c4_2 defaults jsonschema 3.0.1 py37_0 defaults jupyter 1.0.0 py37_7 defaults jupyter_client 5.2.4 py37_0 defaults jupyter_console 6.0.0 py37_0 defaults jupyter_core 4.4.0 py37_0 defaults jupyterlab 0.35.4 py37hf63ae98_0 defaults jupyterlab_server 0.2.0 py37_0 defaults keyring 18.0.0 py37_0 defaults kiwisolver 1.0.1 py37h6538335_0 defaults krb5 1.16.1 hc04afaa_7 defaults lazy-object-proxy 1.3.1 py37hfa6e2cd_2 defaults libarchive 3.3.3 h0643e63_5 defaults libcurl 7.64.0 h2a8f88b_2 defaults libiconv 1.15 h1df5818_7 defaults liblief 0.9.0 ha925a31_2 defaults libpng 1.6.36 h2a8f88b_0 defaults libsodium 1.0.16 h9d3ae62_0 defaults libssh2 1.8.0 h7a1dbc1_4 defaults libtiff 4.0.10 hb898794_2 defaults libxml2 2.9.9 h464c3ec_0 defaults libxslt 1.1.33 h579f668_0 defaults llvmlite 0.28.0 py37ha925a31_0 defaults locket 0.2.0 py37_1 defaults lxml 4.3.2 py37h1350720_0 defaults lz4-c 1.8.1.2 h2fa13f4_0 defaults lzo 2.10 h6df0209_2 defaults m2w64-gcc-libgfortran 5.3.0 6 defaults m2w64-gcc-libs 5.3.0 7 defaults m2w64-gcc-libs-core 5.3.0 7 defaults m2w64-gmp 6.1.0 2 defaults m2w64-libwinpthread-git 5.0.0.4634.697f757 2 defaults markupsafe 1.1.1 py37he774522_0 defaults matplotlib 3.0.3 py37hc8f65d3_0 defaults mccabe 0.6.1 py37_1 defaults menuinst 1.4.16 py37he774522_0 defaults mistune 0.8.4 py37he774522_0 defaults mkl 2019.3 203 defaults mkl-service 1.1.2 py37hb782905_5 defaults mkl_fft 1.0.10 py37h14836fe_0 defaults mkl_random 1.0.2 py37h343c172_0 defaults more-itertools 6.0.0 py37_0 defaults mpmath 1.1.0 py37_0 defaults msgpack-python 0.6.1 py37h74a9793_1 defaults msys2-conda-epoch 20160418 1 defaults multipledispatch 0.6.0 py37_0 defaults navigator-updater 0.2.1 py37_0 defaults nbconvert 5.4.1 py37_3 defaults nbformat 4.4.0 py37_0 defaults networkx 2.2 py37_1 defaults nltk 3.4 py37_1 defaults nose 1.3.7 py37_2 defaults notebook 5.7.8 py37_0 defaults numba 0.43.1 py37hf9181ef_0 defaults numexpr 2.6.9 py37hdce8814_0 defaults numpy 1.16.2 py37h19fb1c0_0 defaults numpy-base 1.16.2 py37hc3f5095_0 defaults numpydoc 0.8.0 py37_0 defaults olefile 0.46 py37_0 defaults openpyxl 2.6.1 py37_1 defaults openssl 1.1.1b he774522_1 defaults packaging 19.0 py37_0 defaults pandas 0.24.2 py37ha925a31_0 defaults pandoc 2.2.3.2 0 defaults pandocfilters 1.4.2 py37_1 defaults parso 0.3.4 py37_0 defaults partd 0.3.10 py37_1 defaults path.py 11.5.0 py37_0 defaults pathlib2 2.3.3 py37_0 defaults patsy 0.5.1 py37_0 defaults pep8 1.7.1 py37_0 defaults pickleshare 0.7.5 py37_0 defaults pillow 5.4.1 py37hdc69c19_0 defaults pip 19.0.3 py37_0 defaults pkginfo 1.5.0.1 py37_0 defaults pluggy 0.9.0 py37_0 defaults ply 3.11 py37_0 defaults powershell_shortcut 0.0.1 2 defaults prometheus_client 0.6.0 py37_0 defaults prompt_toolkit 2.0.9 py37_0 defaults psutil 5.6.1 py37he774522_0 defaults py 1.8.0 py37_0 defaults py-lief 0.9.0 py37ha925a31_2 defaults pycodestyle 2.5.0 py37_0 defaults pycosat 0.6.3 py37hfa6e2cd_0 defaults pycparser 2.19 py37_0 defaults pycrypto 2.6.1 py37hfa6e2cd_9 defaults pycurl 7.43.0.2 py37h7a1dbc1_0 defaults pyflakes 2.1.1 py37_0 defaults pygments 2.3.1 py37_0 defaults pylint 2.3.1 py37_0 defaults pyodbc 4.0.26 py37ha925a31_0 defaults pyopenssl 19.0.0 py37_0 defaults pyparsing 2.3.1 py37_0 defaults pyqt 5.9.2 py37h6538335_2 defaults pyreadline 2.1 py37_1 defaults pyrsistent 0.14.11 py37he774522_0 defaults pysocks 1.6.8 py37_0 defaults pytables 3.5.1 py37h1da0976_0 defaults pytest 4.3.1 py37_0 defaults pytest-arraydiff 0.3 py37h39e3cac_0 defaults pytest-astropy 0.5.0 py37_0 defaults pytest-doctestplus 0.3.0 py37_0 defaults pytest-openfiles 0.3.2 py37_0 defaults pytest-remotedata 0.3.1 py37_0 defaults python 3.7.3 h8c8aaf0_0 defaults python-dateutil 2.8.0 py37_0 defaults python-libarchive-c 2.8 py37_6 defaults pytz 2018.9 py37_0 defaults pywavelets 1.0.2 py37h8c2d366_0 defaults pywin32 223 py37hfa6e2cd_1 defaults pywinpty 0.5.5 py37_1000 defaults pyyaml 5.1 py37he774522_0 defaults pyzmq 18.0.0 py37ha925a31_0 defaults qt 5.9.7 vc14h73c81de_0 defaults qtawesome 0.5.7 py37_1 defaults qtconsole 4.4.3 py37_0 defaults qtpy 1.7.0 py37_1 defaults requests 2.21.0 py37_0 defaults rope 0.12.0 py37_0 defaults ruamel_yaml 0.15.46 py37hfa6e2cd_0 defaults scikit-image 0.14.2 py37ha925a31_0 defaults scikit-learn 0.20.3 py37h343c172_0 defaults scipy 1.2.1 py37h29ff71c_0 defaults seaborn 0.9.0 py37_0 defaults send2trash 1.5.0 py37_0 defaults setuptools 40.8.0 py37_0 defaults simplegeneric 0.8.1 py37_2 defaults singledispatch 3.4.0.3 py37_0 defaults sip 4.19.8 py37h6538335_0 defaults six 1.12.0 py37_0 defaults snappy 1.1.7 h777316e_3 defaults snowballstemmer 1.2.1 py37_0 defaults sortedcollections 1.1.2 py37_0 defaults sortedcontainers 2.1.0 py37_0 defaults soupsieve 1.8 py37_0 defaults sphinx 1.8.5 py37_0 defaults sphinxcontrib 1.0 py37_1 defaults sphinxcontrib-websupport 1.1.0 py37_1 defaults spyder 3.3.3 py37_0 defaults spyder-kernels 0.4.2 py37_0 defaults sqlalchemy 1.3.1 py37he774522_0 defaults sqlite 3.27.2 he774522_0 defaults statsmodels 0.9.0 py37h452e1ab_0 defaults sympy 1.3 py37_0 defaults tblib 1.3.2 py37_0 defaults terminado 0.8.1 py37_1 defaults testpath 0.4.2 py37_0 defaults tk 8.6.8 hfa6e2cd_0 defaults toolz 0.9.0 py37_0 defaults tornado 6.0.2 py37he774522_0 defaults tqdm 4.31.1 py37_1 defaults traitlets 4.3.2 py37_0 defaults unicodecsv 0.14.1 py37_0 defaults urllib3 1.24.1 py37_0 defaults vc 14.1 h0510ff6_4 defaults vs2015_runtime 14.15.26706 h3a45250_0 defaults wcwidth 0.1.7 py37_0 defaults webencodings 0.5.1 py37_1 defaults werkzeug 0.14.1 py37_0 defaults wheel 0.33.1 py37_0 defaults widgetsnbextension 3.4.2 py37_0 defaults win_inet_pton 1.1.0 py37_0 defaults win_unicode_console 0.5 py37_0 defaults wincertstore 0.2 py37_0 defaults winpty 0.4.3 4 defaults wrapt 1.11.1 py37he774522_0 defaults xlrd 1.2.0 py37_0 defaults xlsxwriter 1.1.5 py37_0 defaults xlwings 0.15.4 py37_0 defaults xlwt 1.3.0 py37_0 defaults xz 5.2.4 h2fa13f4_4 defaults yaml 0.1.7 hc54c509_2 defaults zeromq 4.3.1 h33f27b4_3 defaults zict 0.1.4 py37_0 defaults zipp 0.3.3 py37_1 defaults zlib 1.2.11 h62dcd97_3 defaults zstd 1.3.7 h508b16e_0 defaults ```

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