FATAL ERROR: Running pip install outside of a virtual environment

[mtahirbutt]

Dear Community Members, I used zephyr a bit long ago (2.3v series) and came back to using latest versions. But I am unable to set it up and stopped at
west packages pip --install with guidance from Getting Started Zephyr and got error
"FATAL ERROR: Running pip install outside of a virtual environment" when using on command prompt with windows. In fact, I have Python 3.
In the environment variable PATH: "C:\Python311\Scripts, C:\Python311"
The following is outcome for various version checking for python.

C:\Users\tahir>python3 -V
Python 3.12.10

C:\Users\tahir>where python
C:\Python311\python.exe
C:\Users\tahir\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe

C:\Users\tahir>where python3
C:\Users\tahir\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python3.exe

Can Someone has some idea to resolve this issue so that I can move to "Install the Zephyr SDK".

Many thanks in advance for the support.

[Sturla22]

For others with a similar issue; in my case deactivating and re-activating the virtual environment did the trick.