I found how to fix this (from some post that I don't recall.) Seems that the problem is with the Visual C runtime modules on your PC (I'm guessing you are running on a windows machine.) I searched for and found a zip file containing all of the various VC runtime versions and forced all to be installed on my machine. That fixed it up.
The name of the downloaded file was Visual-C-Runtimes-All-in-One-Nov-2024.zip. Sorry I can't recall where I found this.
