All, Thanks for your time and my apologies for the confusion. Turns out when I installed redis-cli it also installed redis-server on my windows 11 laptop which I was not aware off. I uninstalled the application and removed the task. I also deleted the folder itself from C:\Windows.

I then extracted the redis-cli.exe and along with the dlls and copied them to C:\windows\system32.

It is working as expected now.