diff --git a/news/2 Fixes/7888.md b/news/2 Fixes/7888.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c1714788317c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/2 Fixes/7888.md	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow the "Create New Blank Jupyter Notebook" command to be run when the python extension is not loaded yet.
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 589a5585e5e6..0e32a3d76714 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
         "onCommand:python.switchOffInsidersChannel",
         "onCommand:python.switchToDailyChannel",
         "onCommand:python.switchToWeeklyChannel",
+        "onCommand:python.datascience.createnewnotebook",
         "onCommand:python.datascience.showhistorypane",
         "onCommand:python.datascience.importnotebook",
         "onCommand:python.datascience.importnotebookfile",
@@ -962,8 +963,7 @@
                 {
                     "command": "python.datascience.createnewnotebook",
                     "title": "%python.command.python.datascience.createnewnotebook.title%",
-                    "category": "Python",
-                    "when": "python.datascience.featureenabled"
+                    "category": "Python"
                 }
             ],
             "view/title": [