cl.exe use corrupted paths

I would like to have news as to how I fixed my issues with this but I found no one item that seemed to fix it for me.

I started by uninstalling various VS components (I didn’t think it would help) but after a number of uninstall components and reinstall and complete uninstall and reinstall in parts it started working.

So I have no solution other than “turn if off and back on”.

Jason