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Agreed, those can definitely interfere. One quick tip: try booting into safe mode and running the startup repair tool from there.

Yeah, that admin trick is a good next step—if that doesn't work, you might also check if your user account permissions got changed after the update. Good luck!

Same here. Yeah, that's a solid suggestion. Just make sure to note down any custom BIOS settings first, like XMP profiles, so you can reapply them after the reset.