Julia-vscode doesn't work with Julia versions 1.7 and 1.8 on Windows 7

[wfrgra]

When trying to use vscode on Windows 7 with a version of julia after 1.6, vscode is unable to start julia and gives the error:
"Could not start the Julia language server. Make sure the configuration setting julia.executablePath points to the Julia binary."

julia-vscode works correctly for me with Julia 1.6, but I'm unable to upgrade. I've tried playing around with the julia.executablePath variable, un/re-installing vscode, julia and julia-vscode and deleting all vscode files on two computers to no avail. This discourse thread shows other people experiencing the same issue.
Thanks for your work

[davidanthoff]

How did you install Julia? What setting are you actually putting into julia.executablePath. Much more specific details would be very helpful here.