OK fantastic. So you're saying I should buy this?

My laptop <--> https://www.amazon.com/USB-Serial-Adapter-Prolific-PL-2303/dp/B00GRP8EZU -> Plugs into this cablehttps://www.amazon.com/DTECH-Straight-Through-Serial-Female/dp/B07B4VXNLS/ -> Plugs into Cisco console port

That is a cable, not the USB-DB9 adapter.

You need that cable + an adapter like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/USB-Serial-Adapter-Prolific-PL-2303/dp/B00GRP8EZU

This adapter comes with a prolific chip, and its driver can be wonky on windows 10, the alternative are FTDI chips but they have even worse driver problems, higher baud rates like 115200 don't work at all with FTDI.