error in question:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':bootRun'.
> Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':runtimeClasspath'.
   > Failed to calculate the value of task ':compileJava' property 'javaCompiler'.
      > Cannot find a Java installation on your machine matching this tasks requirements: {languageVersion=17, vendor=any, implementation=vendor-specific} for WINDOWS on x86_64.
         > No locally installed toolchains match and toolchain download repositories have not been configured.

* Try:
> Learn more about toolchain auto-detection at https://docs.gradle.org/8.8/userguide/toolchains.html#sec:auto_detection.
> Learn more about toolchain repositories at https://docs.gradle.org/8.8/userguide/toolchains.html#sub:download_repositories.
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.
> Get more help at https://help.gradle.org.

BUILD FAILED in 1s

The build.gradle in question:

plugins {
    id 'java'
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.3.2'
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.6'
}

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'

java {
    toolchain {
        languageVersion = JavaLanguageVersion.of(17)
    }
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
    testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
    testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher'
}

tasks.named('test') {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

VSCode has flagged plugins as the issue but no matter what I do the error is not resolved. When ignoring the error message on VSCode everything else seems to work fine however.