Anaconda Prompt opens with ERROR

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Hi, everyone!
Opening the Anaconda Prompt, the window displays the following error:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Raissa\Documents\AnacondaPython\Lib\site-packages\conda\exception_handler.py", line 18, in __call__
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Raissa\Documents\AnacondaPython\Lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 110, in main_sourced
    print(activator.execute(), end="")
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Raissa\Documents\AnacondaPython\Lib\site-packages\conda\activate.py", line 228, in execute
    return getattr(self, self.command)()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Raissa\Documents\AnacondaPython\Lib\site-packages\conda\activate.py", line 194, in activate
    return self._finalize(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Raissa\Documents\AnacondaPython\Lib\site-packages\conda\activate.py", line 184, in _finalize
    tf.write(self.command_join.join(commands))
  File "C:\Users\Raissa\Documents\AnacondaPython\Lib\tempfile.py", line 483, in func_wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udeb0' in position 773: surrogates not allowed

$ C:\Users\Raissa\Documents\AnacondaPython\Scripts\conda-script.py shell.cmd.exe activate C:\Users\Raissa\Documents\AnacondaPython

I didn’t have this issue before installing a GUI, called PsychoPy.
However, even that I’ve uninstalled it, nothing works anymore.
Trying to uninstall even Anaconda and reinstalling it, the error persists.

As it’s of my concern, I haven’t changed nothing of ‘utf-8’ codec in my computer.

Please, can I get some idea and help?

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I’m not familiar with that particular GUI - however, there are some things you can check for. Sometimes when you uninstall an app or pkg it doesn’t remove everything it installed. I’d check for any preferences or app data that is still hanging around. (There may be info in the project’s documentation where you might find that.). Also, sometimes there are dlls that get installed that can end up causing problems for other applications/pkgs you have installed on your machine. Or perhaps there was an environment variable set or changed? Just some ideas to explore - I have not run into your particular issue myself.