@ejbiker93ss I moved this post to a new thread, so that we don’t mix it up with the feature suggestion of the original Make Threading/Conversation View Optional one.
If I remember correctly, the windows-build-tools are deprecated as the warning says. This is probably the reason why it can’t be installed.
I will check my Windows build setup for you. From my experience it is a bit cumbersome to ensure that all the build dependencies for Windows are installed in a way that everything builds properly. Maybe my setup can help you figure out why you are having issues. And probably update the CONTRIBUTING.md file on the way.