Bet it's a bug in 1709.
Will try to install the newest insider build (17083) to see if it works there...
...and it does indeed work under Redstone 4 Build 17083. Basically the next major version of Windows scheduled for launch in Spring 2018. I did nothing to change the default settings of the exploit protection stuff. It just works...
I like the fact that API finally works in Awesome Miner!
