Downgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11, now getting a HWID ban on Fortnite

[Microsoft Windows]

I downgraded from Windows 11 to Windows 10 after one month of use. Fortnite was playable on my previous Windows 11 installation, but now on Windows 10, I receive a message stating, "You were removed from the match due to your IP, VPN, machine, or cheating." If the game was working fine on Windows 11, why would I get banned on Windows 10? I suspect that a file in Windows 10 might have triggered Fortnite's Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) system to mistakenly label me as cheating, which could have led to a hardware ID (HWID) ban. I even tried upgrading back to Windows 11, but I encountered the same me

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