cmake.preferredGenerators no longer honored in MSVC

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### Brief Issue Summary

I don't know which CMake tools version onwards was broken but I recently updated to 1.19.52, Windows will always run cmake configuration with MSVC, `-G "Visual Studio 17 2022"` regardless of user specified preferred generator.
I specified Ninja in `.vscode\settings.json` or `%APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json`:
```
"cmake.preferredGenerators": [ "Ninja" ],
```
P.S. This is a Windows bug, it still works on Linux.

### CMake Tools Diagnostics

```shell
{
"os": "win32",
"vscodeVersion": "1.90.2",
"cmtVersion": "1.19.52",
"configurations": [
{
"folder": "c:\\_\\comfork",
"cmakeVersion": "3.25.1",
"configured": true,
"generator": "Visual Studio 17 2022",
"usesPresets": false,
"compilers": {}
}
],
"cpptoolsIntegration": {
"isReady": true,
"hasCodeModel": true,
"activeBuildType": "Debug",
"buildTypesSeen": [
"Debug",
"Release",
"MinSizeRel",
"RelWithDebInfo"
],
"requests": [],
"responses": [],
"partialMatches": [],
"targetCount": 7,
"executablesCount": 4,
"librariesCount": 1,
"targets": [
{
"name": "ALL_BUILD",
"type": "UTILITY"
},
{
"name": "ZERO_CHECK",
"type": "UTILITY"
},
{
"name": "libcomfork",
"type": "STATIC_LIBRARY"
},
{
"name": "main_c",
"type": "EXECUTABLE"
},
{
"name": "main_cpp",
"type": "EXECUTABLE"
},
{
"name": "main_nowait_c",
"type": "EXECUTABLE"
},
{
"name": "main_nowait_cpp",
"type": "EXECUTABLE"
}
]
},
"settings": [
{
"communicationMode": "automatic",
"useCMakePresets": "auto",
"configureOnOpen": false
}
]
}
```

### Debug Log

```shell
[main] Configuring project: comfork
[main] Saving open files before configure/build
[expand] expanded ${workspaceFolder}/build
[driver] Start configure
[driver] Running pre-configure checks and steps
[expand] expanded ${workspaceFolder}/build
[cmakefileapi-driver] Configuring using kit
[cmakefileapi-driver] Invoking CMake C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.EXE with arguments ["-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug","-DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS:BOOL=TRUE","--no-warn-unused-cli","-SC:/_/comfork","-Bc:/_/comfork/build","-G","Visual Studio 17 2022","-T","host=x64","-A","x64"]
[proc] Executing command: "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.EXE" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS:BOOL=TRUE --no-warn-unused-cli -SC:/_/comfork -Bc:/_/comfork/build -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -T host=x64 -A x64
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[cmake] Not searching for unused variables given on the command line.
[cmake] -- CMAKE_GENERATOR: Visual Studio 17 2022
[cmake] -- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.26100.0 to target Windows 10.0.22631.
[cmake] -- Using ccache: C:/Program Files/Ccache/ccache.exe
[cmake] -- Configuring done
[cmake] -- Generating done
[cmake] -- Build files have been written to: C:/_/comfork/build
[cmakefileapi-parser] Read reply folder: c:\_\comfork\build\.cmake\api\v1\reply
[cmakefileapi-parser] Found index files: ["cache-v2-9664a26e2b57ab50b009.json","cmakeFiles-v1-50c756c520bc3f25d889.json","codemodel-v2-3df67870b710b7e5ed44.json","directory-.-Debug-d0094a50bb2071803777.json","directory-.-MinSizeRel-d0094a50bb2071803777.json","directory-.-Release-d0094a50bb2071803777.json","directory-.-RelWithDebInfo-d0094a50bb2071803777.json","index-2024-09-26T12-20-17-0127.json","target-ALL_BUILD-Debug-664eedef0ffc8dfe5fa3.json","target-ALL_BUILD-MinSizeRel-664eedef0ffc8dfe5fa3.json","target-ALL_BUILD-Release-664eedef0ffc8dfe5fa3.json","target-ALL_BUILD-RelWithDebInfo-664eedef0ffc8dfe5fa3.json","target-libcomfork-Debug-51d6f331e575759755f1.json","target-libcomfork-MinSizeRel-57ae672f545e1eb38d31.json","target-libcomfork-Release-0dc02df4c99f32c54eb2.json","target-libcomfork-RelWithDebInfo-08bb1ba7110bc32ba359.json","target-main_c-Debug-7ae811bab930eb326937.json","target-main_c-MinSizeRel-30232eeb7db25532fc77.json","target-main_c-Release-d0b18f02a86221cf6106.json","target-main_c-RelWithDebInfo-6f9790898be9a6042cc3.json","target-main_cpp-Debug-2b747ba69a8cc53231d5.json","target-main_cpp-MinSizeRel-8fc9cf5a65a467af7949.json","target-main_cpp-Release-4709698e289ba9590d83.json","target-main_cpp-RelWithDebInfo-35a8eec352538fbcaebe.json","target-main_nowait_c-Debug-1ca417090994cf2354af.json","target-main_nowait_c-MinSizeRel-83286f2904cb83f7adb5.json","target-main_nowait_c-Release-66f3d4d2e93e8c5e533c.json","target-main_nowait_c-RelWithDebInfo-1eaa6b2b0bd9bdec5f56.json","target-main_nowait_cpp-Debug-827b4b259fdb76713f07.json","target-main_nowait_cpp-MinSizeRel-6e895991d682adcac09d.json","target-main_nowait_cpp-Release-15bd802b2f83af26ed5c.json","target-main_nowait_cpp-RelWithDebInfo-617fb87f66832c5cdb8a.json","target-ZERO_CHECK-Debug-140f73551e9b2781638a.json","target-ZERO_CHECK-MinSizeRel-140f73551e9b2781638a.json","target-ZERO_CHECK-Release-140f73551e9b2781638a.json","target-ZERO_CHECK-RelWithDebInfo-140f73551e9b2781638a.json","toolchains-v1-6b6625babe32d2748d4c.json"]
[cache] Reading CMake cache file c:/_/comfork/build/CMakeCache.txt
[cache] Parsing CMake cache string
[visual-studio] OK running C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat x64 , env vars: {"DevEnvDir":"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\BuildTools\\Common7\\IDE\\","Framework40Version":"v4.0","FrameworkDir":"C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\","FrameworkDIR64":"C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64","FrameworkVersion":"v4.0.30319","FrameworkVersion64":"v4.0.30319","INCLUDE":"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.40.33807\\include;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.40.33807\\ATLMFC\\include;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\BuildTools\\VC\\Auxiliary\\VS\\include;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\include\\10.0.26100.0\\ucrt;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\\\include\\10.0.26100.0\\\\um;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows 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[extension] [6054] cmake.configureAll finished (returned 0)
```

### Additional Information

Here is a screenshot of mismatching launch.json and cmake generator:

Here is a screenshot that shows I have ninja installed:

Start with the cmakefile-api-driver configure path shown in the debug log and trace how cmake.preferredGenerators is read when the kit invokes CMake on Windows. Reproduce with CMake Tools 1.19.52, the provided settings, and Ninja; done means the configure command selects Ninja instead of Visual Studio 17 2022 while Linux behavior remains unchanged.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.