How to cleanly stop Plex from command line

[tom80H]

Not a Windows expert… but I found this post on how to gracefully terminate the process.

Shut down Plex from the command line?

Running taskkill /im "Plex Media Server.exe" (without the /f) flag initiates a graceful shutdown of PMS. Without the /f flag, the process is signaled to close (it appears from my logs that a WM_CLOSE message is sent). Plex then shuts down various functions (network advertisement, plug-ins, tuner service, database connections) and exits. Including the /f (force) flag forces a shutdown, whether or not it can be performed gracefully. However, without the flag, the application can choose to cont…