ZeroTier not connecting on Windows, only displays “Waiting for ZeroTier system service….”

Windows UI will not connect, only notifies:
“Waiting for ZeroTier system service….”

Looks like this is a common problem (including on the mac) over the last 6 months and every time someone posts about it, the topic is closed automatically without satisfactory resolution ( 18859,16554, 16234, 15627, 15291).

Uninstalled and Reinstalled the UI and it worked for a day, then after boot up and successful connection today it dropped off in the middle of a session with same symptoms.

15291 recommends using the cli, zerotier-cli join but recieve a 0 join connection failed message.

Got the same problem with windows server 2019. Also restarting the service is not working. I check windows firewall and rules for ZeroTier. Using cli i got Error connecting to the ZeroTier service: Please check that the service is running and that TCP port 9993 can be contacted via 127.0.0.1.