Well, I did the In-Place Upgrade, which took over an hour and the problem persists!
The system keeps saying that it needs to restart to finish the process. Over and over again...
Unfortunately, I'm running a 6,700k on an Intel Z170 platform and don't have the option of upgrading to W11... In the process of getting a 13,900k on a Z790 platform, but where I live, it will take me a few months to gather all the parts...