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Agreed. Yeah, it's a known headache—did you check the privacy dashboard after the upgrade finished, or did the changes pop up later?

Yeah, that Rufus method is solid. Just make sure to grab the latest version since they update the bypass options regularly.

+1 I had the same problem. I ended up having to enable both Secure Boot and clear the TPM in the BIOS to get past that. Let me know if that works.