After so many hours of attempts and investigation, I have managed to deal with the Numpys mkl_intel_thread.dll file error.
The following may not be the solution for all cases, but I will try to explain the details of my particular case in order to help others with the same problem.
MY PROBLEM:
When trying to launch Anaconda's Spyder IDE, it got the following message:
Investigating I realised that this is a numpy problem.
MY SETTINGS:
OS: 64-bit Windows 10 Pro
Python Version
Anaconda Version
MY SOLUTION:
In this particular case, the following steps worked for me:
● STEP - 1:
I uninstalled Numpy and installed it again with below commands
pip uninstall numpy
pip install numpy
● STEP - 2:
I added the following to the PATH system variable:
%IFORT_COMPILER15%\redist\ia32\mkl
%IFORT_COMPILER15%\redist\intel64\mkl
With reference to software.intel.com
(I personally think that in this case this step doesn't have much to do. But I mention it anyway because I don't want to skip any detail.)
● STEP - 3:
Then, I went to: {Anaconda directory}\pkgs\numpy-{Version}\info\test
In my case:
Anaconda directory= C:\Users\Ferdinand\Anaconda3
Version = 1.15.4-py37h19fb1c0_0
Run the file run_test.py located there.
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Now the problem is solved. As I said before, it might not be the ultimate solution, but in my case it worked.
I hope someday this helps someone to solve this problem.