Windows/VSCode: no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (10061)

[shaunEll]

I tried to execute the most basic example but, after adding the puredata dir to the path environmental variable, I get this message from stderr:

"no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (10061)"

Pd stays open and if I click on the send data command it gives the same error in the terminal.

I've tried changing the ports and opening/disabiling the firewall but no luck. Any idea what could be happening?

I'm a bit of a newbie with both Pd and Node but have plenty of sysadmin/Powershell experience.

Windows 11 with VSCode, fresh Node 18.17.1 install

Thanks!