Win 7 Home Premium , set at 30 sec. delay
This is the log that gets recorded ..
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "myibay0.py", line 3072, in <module>
File "myibay0.py", line 3057, in start
File "myibay0.py", line 249, in start
File "myibay1.pyx", line 188, in myibay1.generic.go_online2
File "wx\_core.pyo", line 8475, in Destroy
File "xml\dom\minidom.pyo", line 1925, in parseString
File "xml\dom\expatbuilder.pyo", line 940, in parseString
File "xml\dom\expatbuilder.pyo", line 223, in parseString
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
Exception in thread Thread-1 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):

What kind of delay? Snipe time or startup delay? You should not put the program on startup.
Does it start when you start it normally?

Also, please always specify the software version you are using.

How could you not understand that the delay to start the program is set to 30 sec ? Who would be foolish enough to set the snipe time to 30 sec . ? Would you ?
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It claims that i am running Vista 6.1.7601-sp1 .. isn't that precious !
Yes , Program files -Myibay-myibayexe. is what my start-up manager has set in it to run the programs exe. file on a 30 sec. delay to be sure it's online .
I can not remember to manually start the program due to age .. yes it will start if i did it that way .
Now . What's the problem as recorded by the myibay.exe.log ?

There are many users who set their snipe to be at 20-30 seconds. Everyone has their own reasons.
Windows 7 is based on Windows Vista, so this is normal if you see Vista 6.1 (the original Vista is 6.0).

It seems like it could not connect to the server when started automatically on startup. Maybe network is not established yet?
There is no need for the program to be started every time on startup. I would disable it.