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I got it figured out.  I removed all version of TT and verified there were no windows updates available.  In a final ditch effort to clean up potential residual files from previous installs I installed the program CCleaner and deleted a lot of temporary files not needed.  While this may have made my PC run better this is not what fixed the 70001 error.  In the CCleaner program there is a scan that looks for out of date programs and it found that the program Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable was out of date.  So I went to Microsoft website and downloaded the 64 bit version update and installed it.  The install asked for a restart and once booted up TT acted as normal trying to update itself.  Below is the website to find the update.  Scroll to the first box you see and install either the x86 (32 bit) or x64 (64 bit) versions.  The version I got was version 14.42.34433.0

 

THIS DID NOT APPEAR IN NORMAL MICROSOFT UPDATES FOR ME.  I HAD TO DOWNLOAD THE INSTALL FILE AND RUN IT.

 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

 

Good luck out there,  we'll need it.