I opened up the Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019 which sets all the environment variables.
The window openned up in the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community. I searched under the directory for .BAT files named like vcvars.bat but did not find anything. However under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017 I did find "vars" batch files. I did try the vcvars64.bat frile earlier and the upgrade attempt ended in error.