Thanks for the information about 24H2. Armed with this, I started to do some more tests. Although I cannot be 100% sure, I am fairly sure that uninstalling "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) - 14.40.33810" and installing the latest "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) - 14.42.34433" seemed to be the secret sauce.
I am now back up and running
