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Essentially I cannot seem to activate my virtualenv environment which I create.

I'm doing this inside of windows powershell through using

scriptsactivate

but get an error message

"cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this
system".

Could this be because I don't carry admin privileges on my computer?

Moving comment to answers section :)

According to Microsoft Tech Support it might be a problem with Execution Policy Settings. To fix it, You should try executing Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force in Your Power Shell.

NB: Remember to launch Power Shell as administrator.

Another quick solution i have found here (it is applicable for Windows Powershell only) is like this:

First run

Scriptscmd

Than run

Scriptsactivate.bat

At this position, your Virtualenv is activated. Now if you deactivate it and want to activate it again later in the same session of powershell, you just need to run-

Scriptsactivate

There is no need to cmd or activate.bat command later.

in windows you should activate the virtual environment by following command in cmd

E:your_environmentScripts>activate.bat

if the environment is activated then it show your environment name enclosed with bracket like this

(your_environment) E:your_environmentScripts>

Also we can ensure by checking with where.exe it will list our active python environment with order of hierarchy

 (your_environment) E:your_environmentScripts>where.exe python

 E:your_environmentScriptspython.exe

 C:Python27python.exe

if you need to deactivate then do

(your_environment) E:your_environmentScripts>deactivate.bat

This worked for me:

You can simply open a normal (you do not need elevated access) cmd or powershell session (I use the embedded PS terminal in vscode) and type the following from the folder where the script file is e.g.: .venvScriptsActivate.ps1:

powershell.exe -executionpolicy unrestricted -command .Activate.ps1 -Scope CurrentUser

and then you can run the activate command after that.

Note: This will only allow that specific Script to run, and only by your logged in user.

Set the ExcutionPolicy for the Process Scope
after Yes [y]
then type Scripts/activate

To install a virtual environment in Windows Powershell only but to activate you'll need to run Windows powershell as Administrator

1. pip install virtualenv


2. virtualenv %Name of virtual environment%

It is installed now to activate it, run powershell in as administrator

3. Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force


4. .envScriptsactivate

To deactivate the environment

5. .envScriptsdeactivate

Hope it helps.

For more help do visit the official page
https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/1.8.2/

If you don't want to change your computer's execution policy on windows like I do, you can use windows command prompt instead of windows powershell, and just need to run
Scriptsactivate
to activate your env