title: Anaconda environment issues
body: <p>I have installed anaconda navigator and through that I have installed jupyter notebook. I also have anaconda prompt.</p>
  
  <p>The conda info output in prompt is different from the jupyter notebook output</p>
  
  <p>Anaconda Prompt output for conda info:</p>
  
  <pre><code>active environment : base
  active env location : C:\Users\***\Anaconda2
          shell level : 1
     user config file : C:\Users\***\.condarc
  populated config files : C:\Users\***\.condarc
        conda version : 4.5.12
  conda-build version : 3.0.19
       python version : 2.7.13.final.0
     base environment : C:\Users\***\Anaconda2  (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/pro/win-64
                        https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/noarch
                        https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                        https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
        package cache : C:\Users\***\Anaconda2\pkgs
                        C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
     envs directories : C:\Users\***\Anaconda2\envs
                        C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
                        C:\Users\***\.conda\envs
             platform : win-64
           user-agent : conda/4.5.12 requests/2.14.2 CPython/2.7.13 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.17134
        administrator : False
           netrc file : None
         offline mode : False
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Jupyter output for the same:</p>
  
  <pre><code>active environment : base
  active env location : C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3
     user config file : C:\Users\***\.condarc
  populated config files : C:\Users\***\.condarc
        conda version : 4.5.4
  conda-build version : 3.10.5
       python version : 3.6.5.final.0
     base environment : C:\Users\***\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/pro/win-64
                        https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/noarch
                        https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                        https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
        package cache : C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\pkgs
                        C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
     envs directories : C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs
                        C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
                        C:\Users\***\.conda\envs
             platform : win-64
           user-agent : conda/4.5.4 requests/2.18.4 CPython/3.6.5 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.17134
        administrator : False
           netrc file : None
         offline mode : False
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>conda env list output:</p>
  
  <pre><code># conda environments:
  #
  base                  *  C:\Users\***\Anaconda2
                           C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have looked into <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/28460907/5658251">this</a> but didn't help. I believe this lack of sync in the environments is causing problems to installing more packages. On running the same command in these environments, I get different errors(obvious). How do I change the environment in the anaconda prompt to anaconda3 as the active env. So that any installations from the prompt will reflect the same in the notebook.  </p>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated.</p>