This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "". Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

[ghost]

My config now: Windows 10, latest Python 3.6 64 bit

Problem is: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "".

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. When i try to start the spyder

I have already completed the update with the command: conda update --all

[mingwandroid]

Please show the output from: conda info conda list --show-channel-urls

How did you try to launch spyder? Please try to launch it from the Anaconda Prompt.

[ghost]

@mingwandroid conda info.txt conda list --show.txt i try to launch it from the Anaconda Prompt then

spyder This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "". Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

[mingwandroid]

Unfortunately Anaconda does not work when installed to a folder with non-ASCII characters. Please install it somewhere else than C:\Users\Jo„oVictor\Anaconda3.

[ghost]

i rename my folder "Jo„oVictor" and are a solucion. Thank's @mingwandroid You is the best. <3

[muditrastogi]

I am also facing the same issue using windows 7 32 bit system c:\Anaconda2\Scripts>spyder This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "".

conda info

`Current conda install:

           platform : win-32
      conda version : 4.2.13
   conda is private : False
  conda-env version : 4.2.13
conda-build version : not installed
     python version : 2.7.13.final.0
   requests version : 2.12.4
   root environment : c:\Anaconda2  (writable)
default environment : c:\Anaconda2
   envs directories : c:\Anaconda2\envs
      package cache : c:\Anaconda2\pkgs
       channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/win-32
                      https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-32
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/win-32
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/win-32
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/noarch
        config file : C:\Users\RAJA\.condarc
       offline mode : False

`

conda list # packages in environment at c:\Anaconda2: # _license 1.1 py27_1 alabaster 0.7.9 py27_0 anaconda 4.3.0 np111py27_0 anaconda-client 1.6.0 py27_0 anaconda-navigator 1.4.3 py27_0 argcomplete 1.0.0 py27_1 astroid 1.4.9 py27_0 astropy 1.3 np111py27_0 babel 2.3.4 py27_0 backports 1.0 py27_0 backports_abc 0.5 py27_0 beautifulsoup4 4.5.3 py27_0 bitarray 0.8.1 py27_1 blaze 0.10.1 py27_0 bokeh 0.12.4 py27_0 boto 2.45.0 py27_0 bottleneck 1.2.0 np111py27_0 bzip2 1.0.6 vc9_3 [vc9] cdecimal 2.3 py27_2 cffi 1.9.1 py27_0 chardet 2.3.0 py27_0 chest 0.2.3 py27_0 click 6.7 py27_0 cloudpickle 0.2.2 py27_0 clyent 1.2.2 py27_0 colorama 0.3.7 py27_0 comtypes 1.1.2 py27_0 conda 4.2.13 py27_0 conda-forge conda-env 2.6.0 0 configobj 5.0.6 py27_0 configparser 3.5.0 py27_0 console_shortcut 0.1.1 py27_1 contextlib2 0.5.4 py27_0 crab 0.5.0 <pip> cryptography 1.7.1 py27_0 curl 7.52.1 vc9_0 [vc9] cx-Freeze 5.0.1 <pip> cycler 0.10.0 py27_0 cython 0.25.2 py27_0 cytoolz 0.8.2 py27_0 dask 0.13.0 py27_0 datashape 0.5.4 py27_0 decorator 4.0.11 py27_0 dill 0.2.5 py27_0 Django 1.11 <pip> docutils 0.13.1 py27_0 entrypoints 0.2.2 py27_0 enum34 1.1.6 py27_0 et_xmlfile 1.0.1 py27_0 fastcache 1.0.2 py27_1 flask 0.12 py27_0 flask-cors 3.0.2 py27_0 freetype 2.5.5 vc9_2 [vc9] funcsigs 1.0.2 py27_0 functools32 3.2.3.2 py27_0 futures 3.0.5 py27_0 get_terminal_size 1.0.0 py27_0 gevent 1.2.1 py27_0 greenlet 0.4.11 py27_0 grin 1.2.1 py27_3 h5py 2.6.0 np111py27_2 hdf5 1.8.15.1 vc9_4 [vc9] heapdict 1.0.0 py27_1 icu 57.1 vc9_0 [vc9] idna 2.2 py27_0 imagesize 0.7.1 py27_0 ipaddress 1.0.18 py27_0 ipykernel 4.5.2 py27_0 ipython 5.1.0 py27_0 ipython_genutils 0.1.0 py27_0 ipywidgets 5.2.2 py27_1 isort 4.2.5 py27_0 itsdangerous 0.24 py27_0 jdcal 1.3 py27_0 jedi 0.9.0 py27_1 jinja2 2.9.4 py27_0 jpeg 9b vc9_0 [vc9] jsonschema 2.5.1 py27_0 jupyter 1.0.0 py27_3 jupyter_client 4.4.0 py27_0 jupyter_console 5.0.0 py27_0 jupyter_core 4.2.1 py27_0 Keras 2.0.2 <pip> lazy-object-proxy 1.2.2 py27_0 libpng 1.6.27 vc9_0 [vc9] libpython 2.0 py27_0 libtiff 4.0.6 vc9_3 [vc9] llvmlite 0.15.0 py27_0 locket 0.2.0 py27_1 lxml 3.7.2 py27_0 m2w64-binutils 2.25.1 5 m2w64-bzip2 1.0.6 6 m2w64-crt-git 5.0.0.4636.2595836 2 m2w64-gcc 5.3.0 6 m2w64-gcc-ada 5.3.0 6 m2w64-gcc-fortran 5.3.0 6 m2w64-gcc-libgfortran 5.3.0 6 m2w64-gcc-libs 5.3.0 7 m2w64-gcc-libs-core 5.3.0 7 m2w64-gcc-objc 5.3.0 6 m2w64-gmp 6.1.0 2 m2w64-headers-git 5.0.0.4636.c0ad18a 2 m2w64-isl 0.16.1 2 m2w64-libiconv 1.14 6 m2w64-libmangle-git 5.0.0.4509.2e5a9a2 2 m2w64-libwinpthread-git 5.0.0.4634.697f757 2 m2w64-make 4.1.2351.a80a8b8 2 m2w64-mpc 1.0.3 3 m2w64-mpfr 3.1.4 4 m2w64-pkg-config 0.29.1 2 m2w64-toolchain 5.3.0 7 m2w64-tools-git 5.0.0.4592.90b8472 2 m2w64-windows-default-manifest 6.4 3 m2w64-winpthreads-git 5.0.0.4634.697f757 2 m2w64-zlib 1.2.8 10 markupsafe 0.23 py27_2 matplotlib 2.0.0 np111py27_0 menuinst 1.4.4 py27_0 mingw 4.7 1 mistune 0.7.3 py27_0 mkl 2017.0.1 0 mkl-service 1.1.2 py27_3 mpmath 0.19 py27_1 msys2-conda-epoch 20160418 1 multipledispatch 0.4.9 py27_0 nbconvert 4.2.0 py27_0 nbformat 4.2.0 py27_0 networkx 1.11 py27_0 nltk 3.2.2 py27_0 nose 1.3.7 py27_1 notebook 4.3.1 py27_1 numba 0.30.1 np111py27_0 numexpr 2.6.1 np111py27_2 numpy 1.11.3 py27_0 numpydoc 0.6.0 py27_0 odo 0.5.0 py27_1 olefile 0.44 <pip> opencv-python 3.2.0.7 <pip> openpyxl 2.4.1 py27_0 openssl 1.0.2k vc9_0 [vc9] pandas 0.19.2 np111py27_1 partd 0.3.7 py27_0 path.py 10.0 py27_0 pathlib2 2.2.0 py27_0 patsy 0.4.1 py27_0 pep8 1.7.0 py27_0 pickleshare 0.7.4 py27_0 pil 1.1.7 py27_0 pillow 4.0.0 py27_0 pip 9.0.1 py27_1 ply 3.9 py27_0 prompt_toolkit 1.0.9 py27_0 psutil 5.0.1 py27_0 py 1.4.32 py27_0 pyasn1 0.1.9 py27_0 pycosat 0.6.1 py27_1 pycparser 2.17 py27_0 pycrypto 2.6.1 py27_5 pycurl 7.43.0 py27_2 pyflakes 1.5.0 py27_0 pygame 1.9.3 <pip> pygments 2.1.3 py27_0 pylint 1.6.4 py27_1 pyopenssl 16.2.0 py27_0 pyparsing 2.1.4 py27_0 pyqt 5.6.0 py27_2 pytables 3.2.2 np111py27_4 pytest 3.0.5 py27_0 python 2.7.13 0 python-dateutil 2.6.0 py27_0 pytz 2016.10 py27_0 pywin32 220 py27_2 pyyaml 3.12 py27_0 pyzmq 16.0.2 py27_0 qt 5.6.2 vc9_3 [vc9] qtawesome 0.4.3 py27_0 qtconsole 4.2.1 py27_2 qtpy 1.2.1 py27_0 requests 2.12.4 py27_0 rope 0.9.4 py27_1 ruamel_yaml 0.11.14 py27_1 scandir 1.4 py27_0 scikit-image 0.12.3 np111py27_1 scikit-learn 0.18.1 np111py27_1 scipy 0.18.1 np111py27_1 seaborn 0.7.1 py27_0 setuptools 27.2.0 py27_1 simplegeneric 0.8.1 py27_1 singledispatch 3.4.0.3 py27_0 sip 4.18 py27_0 six 1.10.0 py27_0 snowballstemmer 1.2.1 py27_0 sockjs-tornado 1.0.3 py27_0 sphinx 1.5.1 py27_0 spyder 3.1.2 py27_0 sqlalchemy 1.1.5 py27_0 ssl_match_hostname 3.4.0.2 py27_1 statsmodels 0.6.1 np111py27_1 subprocess32 3.2.7 py27_0 sympy 1.0 py27_0 Theano 0.9.0 <pip> tk 8.5.18 vc9_0 [vc9] toolz 0.8.2 py27_0 tornado 4.4.2 py27_0 traitlets 4.3.1 py27_0 unicodecsv 0.14.1 py27_0 vs2008_runtime 9.00.30729.5054 0 wcwidth 0.1.7 py27_0 werkzeug 0.11.15 py27_0 wheel 0.29.0 py27_0 widgetsnbextension 1.2.6 py27_0 win_unicode_console 0.5 py27_0 wrapt 1.10.8 py27_0 xlrd 1.0.0 py27_0 xlsxwriter 0.9.6 py27_0 xlwings 0.10.2 py27_0 xlwt 1.2.0 py27_0 zlib 1.2.8 vc9_3 [vc9]

[JonnasSeaworth2015]

Hi,

Is there a way to create the .anaconda directory in another place that it is not the user home directory ? My windows is in portuguese and the path to my user includes non ascii characters but I don't have admin powers in the windows environment to change it. I installed Anaconda in a directory I created in drive D (D:\Dev ) but the .anaconda is in my home so it does not run and gives the same message as above.

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "". Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

[ghost]

I have completed this topic because I can change the username of my windows system, removing the non ascii characters, so I believe that one solution would be to install the .anaconda on another user, or if you can change the name by the records and forcing them to work, Look for some tutorials there. Good luck, bring us the news.

[karimsabbah]

Hi everyone, I wrote a script using spyder and used a few of the libraries Anaconda comes with. I'm having this issue(This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows" in "". Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.) but only after converting my file to an executable file and try running it. In other words, when I run the code in spyder it works perfect and I just want to be able to have an executable file. I have very little coding experience by the way. Can anyone help? need more details?

[ThomasThelen]

It may be worthwhile linking https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/1270 to this

[fauskanger]

I have Anaconda3 with Python 3.6.3 installed on "E:\Anaconda3" and I get the same error.

I was running ipython in the "default" env. (I'm not using Spyder)

My user folder (on C:\ ) has no non-ascii letters.

[VladLimbean]

I found out this may be an issue when your windows user contains spaces. Like, "windows user".

Removing the spaces is a solution. Ie. "windowsuser"