sabnzbd error on startup

[NightBreeze]

Hello all!

Since a few days and rather out of the blue, my sabnzbd refuses to start. I have already reinstalled it using the windows installer, as well as tried using the archive version. I'm on windows vista. The app generates an error in the logfile on start-up. I was hoping someone recognizes what is missing:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SABnzbd.py", line 828, in
  File "SABnzbd.py", line 423, in main
  File "platform.pyo", line 1198, in platform
  File "platform.pyo", line 967, in uname
  File "platform.pyo", line 401, in _syscmd_ver
  File "platform.pyo", line 356, in popen
pywintypes.error: (2, 'CreateProcess', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')

Thanks in advance

[switch]

Have you done any dramatic changes to your system recently such as driver updates, windows updates, "tweaks", deleting windows files?

Unfortunately that is python failing to load a standard module, and not anything specific to SABnzbd so I do not know what would cause that.

[NightBreeze]

Thanks for the reply switch.

As far as I know nothing dramatic has changed in the past weeks. To be honest I was in freaking Africa, a few thousand miles from my computer. Right before I was busy updating some stuff for my webserver, but I'm pretty sure those changes did not dig deep into windows. I must confess that I haven't a clue how to purposely mess up the python modules, other than deleting specific files or destroying configs. Anyways, thanks for the help. Perhaps I can somehow repair windows and if not, there's always reinstalling.

Cheers