Minion sadly wont start anymore

[KillerKitty]

Greetings,

first of all: thank you for all the support you give people here

I wanted to update my ESO addons (like many other users I guess) and the minion said that it couldn't connect to the internet. So I informed myself and uninstalled it to update it to a new version. Since then, my Minion has been dead

I read the sticky post about troubleshooting, implemented/tried out some of the points and also googled whether I could find help somewhere.

I have now tried the 32- and 64-bit versions, put it on the whitelist for bitdefender and the windows firewall, started and installed it as administrator. Almost nothing happens when I start it. I get the typical Windows loading circle for a moment, then nothing. No process in the task manager, no tray icon. I have also tried various installation locations (the one suggested and one that worked well for a long time before). I'm located in germany but have absolutely no latin characters in my names (I'm an IT worker so its kinda in my blood).

I renamed the minion.xml but minion doesn't seem to get that far to recreate it. So I attached the renamed one and my actual minion.log. I had to cut a few lines out of the minion log from past years because it was too big

Hope you can help me
Thanks in advance for your time.

edit: I'm using Minion with my Win10 64-bit