Thank you for the suggestion, I tried it, disabled defender, ran program, no restart, same issue no change. I also went through disabled all other types of software and network related policies, tried again, no change. I guess ill bite the bullet and do a full wipe and reinstall of windows.
It's a good choice that you have decided to fresh install Windows.
Anyway, I'll recommend installing Windows 10 LTSC version as it is very stable, no feature updates so it won't go updating itself middle of the night and break something.
After installing, perform all the security updates, then disable automatic updates through group policy and start mining.
It'll run as stable as a Linux system.
Thank you very much for this information, I did not know about this version before and i will definitely be using it for the fresh install. thanks again