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When I start sabnzbd on my windows machine I'm able to access sabnzb from the local and other machine's by going to http://mce/sabnzbd.
When I autostart sabnzbd after my windows machine has booted I'm not able to access sabnzbd from other machine's. When I try to open sabnzbd in a local browser it only opens when I go to http://locahost/sabnzbd. I tried to start sabnzbd by placing a hyperlink in the startup folder and by adding a scheduled task. I'm using Windows XP Pro
Does anybody knows how to fix this?

Have you looked in SABnzbd's log file to see to which port is listens?
What did you fill in host?

Reminder:
host = ""  ==> http://mce/sabnzbd
host = 0.0.0.0 ==> http://mce/sabnzbd or http://localhost/sabnzbd
host = mce ==> http://mce/sabnzbd

The hostname will only if your DNS works properly, otherwise use the numerical IP address.

Yes, everything works OK when I start sabnzbd manually. But when I start sabnzbd automatically he only listens on localhost (not even the ip number). Even the hostname is configured as "mce"

Try using the host 0.0.0.0
It might have more luck with the delay of your internet being resolved at startup.

Unsuccesfully tried using 0.0.0.0

Just reinstalled sabnzbd and gave my windows pc a fixed ip adres (192.168.1.9). When I start sabnzbd manually I can surf to http://192.168.1.9/sabnzbd/ from the local browser and from the browsers on other pc's in the network.
When I start sabnzbd during windows boot using the Startup folder nothing works. I can see that sabnzbd has started in the Windows Task manager. The only difference I see between manual and automatic start is the memory usage. The automatic started sabnzbds uses 14.052k. The manually started sabnzbd uses 16.752k

Just wondering, did you ever find a solution for this problem ?
I've just build a new HTPC which runs sabnzbd as well and am facing the same problem.

It's very likely that your network card hasn't obtained an IP address from the router yet.
The safest way to do it is a scheduled task.
You can define a scheduled task that runs on login.
The scheduled task should call a batch file that starts with a "sleep" command (say 5 minutes)
and then starts SABnzbd.

Not ideal, but you could give your system a fixed IP address (and disable DHCP).

On my system (Win Se7en) there is an option in the Task Scheduler to

Start only if the following network connection is available:

I have it set to "Any Connection". This prevents the Task from starting until my network card has obtained an IP address from the router.
Using this, SABnzbd+ starts as soon as I've got a connection, be it 1 minute or 5 minutes.

Hope this helps