VSCode Workbench invokes particle.exe from the wrong location

Hello!

I have not used this laptop in a while. Running the particle CLI from the command line works perfectly, so I have been able to use it.

However, when I try and run from VSCode, the CLI exe appears to be broken, and I am not sure how to fix it.

Details:

Running where particle on windows yields this:

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\particle
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\particle.cmd
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\particle\bin\particle.exe

when I invoke particle.exe, wither from the command line or through the IDE (which invokes it from that last location), the program literally does nothing. I can't even get a version out of it. I even tried the npm update, but that did not help.

However, when I run "particle etc..." this woks fine.

I would like to get this working again, but I am afraid to uninstall because it might uninstall the npm version too? Which version should I keep? Can I get Workbench to switch to the other one?