… One thing I did notice thought is that after installing the windows SDKs is that I’m no longer getting the "… api-ms-win-core-winrt-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer… " error.
The other thing I was wondering is if the fact that I installed UE5 in a drive that does not have my operating system makes a difference(?) Probably not… I didn’t see any documentation that says it has to be.