Anaconda virtual environment won't start?

Question

So I'm trying to create a virtual environment that runs python 3.5 with Anaconda. To do that, I created a virtual environment like so:

conda create --name pythonScrapy python=3.5 

and then tried to run it by calling:

activate pythonScrapy

But when I then call conda info --envs, while the new environment shows up, the * signifying which environment is being used is stuck on the root one. What can be the reason that the comp is not switching my virual environments??

Answer 1

Powershell doesn't support activate. use cmd or anaconda shell.