I didn't notice this until later.  But when I installed a BIOS update on my 9th gen Intel system, (rom version 2004, and then again with 2101) that it quietly enabled the firmware TPM. 

I installed the BIOS updates, then go back to the BIOS after it's completed and reconfigure some personal settings like XMP and my overclock settings and all.  I made sure that rebar is on and firmware TPM is off.  Then let the computer reboot.  The computer then power cycles 3 to 4 times as it goes through memory training.  This is a normal process when enabling XMP profiles.  It basically unlocks the full advertised speed of your ram.  But during that memory training process (both times) firmware TPM and secure boot got re-enabled.  Even the main board venders are trying to get everyone ready to install windows 11 if the system can support it.

It was natural to assume that the 13th gen Intel system would have firmware TPM enabled by default.  Windows 11 "supposedly" has a better CPU core scheduler than windows 10.  And with a CPU that has 16 cores / 24 threads, 8 of which being efficiency cores, that core management is required.  I guess that would be nice if the user is concerned about power management?  But the fact that windows 10 can manage them just fine, leads me to believe this whole core schedule thing is just another hype train point to make users want to upgrade to windows 11.

I had no idea just how far AI has changed the net until watching this. I had no idea about the music for example! Wow! And I am just waiting for mention of scammers using AI to overcome the language barrier.

Haha that is sweet! Now I understand the full experience and don't blame you! I can see your frustration with that and don't blame you. What an annoyance! That has been very educational and I am glad you shared. That is what I wanted to know! Thank you  

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 It went better than I expected as my radiation oncologist is easier to understand than my chemo oncologist was. He explained everything to me and was very patient and took the time to even listen to my mom explain how things were when I was a baby with kidney disease (at that time still undiagnosed) and turns out he has a teen daughter who has a baby was diagnosed with the same renal reflux I had but got the surgery whereas when I was a baby it was missed leading to the loss of my kidneys.  I know most doctors would have gotten impatient about my mom talking about something not relevant to what I was there for but he was very nice.

My Radiation WILL be at the same time as I am getting my Chemo and the radiation will be 5 days a week every week but just for an hour targeted from 4 sides of the area of the cancer to get rid of any residual cancer. But the radiation will only be for 6 weeks. Also they are very willing to work around any other appointments I have which I am very happy about.

My skin will be red and itchy and like a sun burn but they will give me creams that even if my disability won't cover they will work with me so that I will get it. I have been set up with a cancer social worker finally (since this doctor actually listened I was able to talk about my finances during this time which has been extremely hard) to work with me and my disability to get the things I need covered. So over all, it was a good appointment.

Tomorrow I go for my blood labs since Monday is my next chemo.

Wednesday I will get mapping done so they know the area to target with the radiation.

It started out with being forced to create a MS account in order to just install the OS.  I tried a number of workarounds at the time and none of them actually worked.  Even after getting into windows, you are still unable to create another user account that is a local user.  But it didn't end there.  Every administrative action you make, requires authorization through the MS network.  Which is a several addition step process.  A good amount of networking configurations that we have come accustomed to in previous versions of windows have been changed, and some even hidden.  It was such a frustrating experience when I couldn't even setup network sharing that can work across multilabel OS platforms.  That was when I reached my boiling point and had to install Win 10.

Now here is the odd thing.  I ran windows 10 install from within windows 11.  But chose the full install option.  Full format and all.  I had purchased a cheap win 10 CD key just prior to doing this.  But windows 10 must have picked up the already authorized windows 11 key and just installed like I was running an update.  There is no trace of win 11 on the system anywhere.  But no CD key or windows activation was required at any time.  After windows 10 was fully installed, activated and updated, I started getting relentless prompts to update to windows 11 again.  So, to fix that, I went into the BIOS and disabled the TPM and secure boot options.  Windows update now reports that my Intel 13700K system does not meet the minimum system requirements to run windows 11.