Windows 10 "The request is not supported" when running any executable that requires admin privileges

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Hi, I'm on Windows 10 Home and I recently installed a new update to version 21H2. Apparently, I can no longer do anything that requires elevated admin privileges on my only profile on this computer. Upon running an .exe executable as administrator, the User Account Control window does not show up; instead, the screen would blink and a pop-up would appear with the message "The request is not supported." I went around and searched the internet for troubleshooting this issue as the default Windows 10 update troubleshooter does not resolve this issue. While I did find a couple of different methods

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