Unable to start ComfyUI Desktop v0.4.55

Hi, I have installed ComfyUI Desktop v0.4.55 but when I try to start it I’ve got a ImportError. Any help would be much appreciated. Please see below the full logs:

[2025-07-09 08:02:30.857] [info] Adding extra search path custom_nodes C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI\custom_nodes
Adding extra search path download_model_base C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI\models
Adding extra search path custom_nodes C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI\custom_nodes
Setting output directory to: C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI\output
Setting input directory to: C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI\input
Setting user directory to: C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI\user

[2025-07-09 08:02:31.792] [info] [START] Security scan
[DONE] Security scan

ComfyUI-Manager: installing dependencies done.

** ComfyUI startup time:
[2025-07-09 08:02:31.799] [info] 2025-07-09 08:02:31.791
** Platform: Windows
** Python version: 3.12.9 (main, Feb 12 2025, 14:52:31) [MSC v.1942 64 bit (AMD64)]
** Python executable: C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Scripts\python.exe
** ComfyUI Path: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI
** ComfyUI Base Folder Path: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI
** User directory: C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI\user
** ComfyUI-Manager config path: C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI\user\default\ComfyUI-Manager\config.ini
** Log path: C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI\user\comfyui.log

[2025-07-09 08:02:32.866] [error] [ComfyUI-Manager] Failed to restore comfyui-frontend-package
expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

[2025-07-09 08:02:32.874] [info]
Prestartup times for custom nodes:
3.1 seconds: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\ComfyUI-Manager

[2025-07-09 08:02:34.727] [error] Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI\main.py”, line 130, in

[2025-07-09 08:02:34.733] [error] import comfy.utils
File “C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI\comfy\utils.py”, line 26, in
from PIL import Image
File “C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py”, line 97, in
from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: cannot import name 'imaging’ from ‘PIL’ (C:\Users\user\Documents\ComfyUI.venv\Lib\site-packages\PIL_init.py)

Thanks