How To Solve -> 'Conda' is not recognized as internal or external command

I have installed Anaconda without checking Add Anaconda3 to my PATH (as recommended).

However, when I open Terminal in VS Code or PowerShell in Windows AND try to run conda commands I experience -> 'Conda' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I had to use Anaconda Prompt Terminal to run conda commands, which was inconvenient.

Here is how I have fixed that

Open Anaconda Prompt
Run the following command
conda init powershell

Now I can run PowerShell Terminal or Terminal in VS Code, which will open the base Conda environment. Now that the conda command is recognizable, I can activate the necessary environment, create a new one, etc.

P.S. -> "conda init powershell" will change the PowerShell profile file to hook the Anaconda Prompt and PowerShell Shell. Here is the code added to PowerShell profile file.

#region conda initialize # !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!

If (Test-Path "F:\Anaconda\Scripts\conda.exe") {

(& "F:\Anaconda\Scripts\conda.exe" "shell.powershell" "hook") | Out-String | ?{$_} | Invoke-Expression }

#endregion

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