Jupyter Lab and Notebook can't be opened

Hi,

I just installed Anaconda Navigator 2.7.0 and the snapshot of the interface is attached. The problem is by clicking on

Jupyter Lab → Launch and Jupyter Notebook → Launch nothing happens, but it works with VSC. Why?

You may get lucky and someone here can shed some light on this; however, Anaconda is a separate entity than the Jupyter Project and you are more likely to learn more pertinent forum.
(My quick ideas to investigate would be whether you have proper admin permissions for launch of things. Or if your browser is connected in a way that allows you to click things and it launches. Plus, the evergreen idea of rebooting everything and the computer and few times to see if something changes. Those are just ideas though.)

For your other post elsewhere you may want to better make clear what you mean by ‘it works with VSC.’ Does that mean the launch shown there for VS Code works or Jupyter works for you in VS Code?

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I mean, VSC can be opened with a click on Launch.

I just wonder if I shall install Lab and Notebook separately. If so, how?

Another things you may want to explore is getting your Anaconda-installed Jupyter products to launch from the Anaconda prompt.

If that doesn’t provide a way to get what you have to work:
You could try JupyterLab Desktop perhaps? See here. And note you should read that entire post as the model it expects for project management is a bit different than Anaconda.
That may suffice for your needs. Jupyter Notebook is mostly a different interface built on JupyterLab components.

In the launched anaconda_prompt I just tipped „jlab --help“: Not Recognized as an Internal or External Command. Does it mean JupyterLab was not installed at all?

I don’t use the command(s) to launch that often so take this with a grain of salt perhaps:
That doesn’t look like the correct command you’d use to activate JupyterLab on the command line. I’d advise looking at other resources beyond what you are consulting. And so if that is the case that wasn’t the right syntax, you aren’t testing whether it was installed or not.
Plus, since Anaconda should have installed Jupyter Notebook, you can look into the commands to launch that as possibilities to try at the Anaconda prompt. Also even though you are at the prompt, it is possible you may need to possibly activate the environment first? (Last suggestion is just an idea from looking around this forum for what others have said.)

I don’t know if you said yet if you are running on Windows or not. If so,…
Further guidance you’ll find if you investigate more troubleshooting steps on this forum is that you need to run things as administrator.

And keep in mind, Anaconda is a company that distributes Jupyter. You may wish to see this post linking to Anaconda support channels that are also available for looking for troubleshooting resources.

While closing Anaconda on Windows I get this message (screenshot attached). It means both JupyterLab and Notebook are launched but I see nothing.

Looks like you are making progress in troubleshooting…
If you find the terminal/console that it triggers when they start up, you may be able to see the url that you can put in your browser.
Any chance your browser has security settings making it just not come up when it would be triggered to open? Your browser runs as adminstrator.