Thanks for the reply but I already have that setting. It seems to be a Windows issue, not an A.M. issue. Defender and the firewall are turned off, etc. Now the miners are not even staying running, they launch then a few seconds later exit. All the diagnostics log says is "Probably cause: incorrect configuration" but I assume that's just a generic message, the configuration is fine.
This typically indicates that the mining software close/crashed, and it's correct that the message given from Awesome Miner is quite generic here, as Awesome Miner just noticed that the mining software no longer running for a reason.
Didn't the mining software output anything in the Diagnostics output - it closed/crashed right away?
Have you tried to re-install the Microsoft VS C++ redistributable packages that are required by some mining software - to make sure they didn't get corrupt when you upgraded Windows?
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