Hi chancefx,
miniZ should be able to mine ZEL on Windows 10. It looks that, in your case, there is a bit more memory being used by the OS.
Could you paste here the output of miniZ.exe -ci ?
This can help us to understand this, and improve the miner for the next version.
Cheers
sure,

thanks! We will have a look, maybe we can fix this for the next version or even earlier.