Problem Accessing Packages Installed to Root

Hey all,

I have created several jupyter desktop app files for my workflow, and have recently upgraded to windows 11 from windows 10.

I was hoping it would be as easy as reinstalling python to root, then installing jupyter and all of my modules. However, it appears that is not the case. On my windows 10 machine I was able to just double click a ipynb file and have it open and not really worry about environments; I think I had it set up to use the root.

I am now trying to get the same behaviour so I can run my files from wherever they are saved (calculation files that get saved into job specific folders etc) instead of creating virtual environments every time I want to copy the calculation to a new folder.

The jupyter kernel appears to keep loading the kernel not in root, and any time I try to use pip to install my dependencies I get this error, and the packages don’t install.

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I have added my python to the path environment system variable, but that doesn’t seem to have worked.

I have also added the C:\Users\____\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python314\python.exe to my jupyter desktop app default working directory.