Server Version#: 1.32.3.7192
Player Version#: NA
OS: Windows 10 Pro
I was doing some maintenance on my server and noticed in the console I was getting warnings for “Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD) failed: 0x80004005”. about every 5 seconds.
I’ve uploaded an image of the console error message. Not sure why this is happening. I did do a Google search on it and found a matching result, however it is in the r/Plex subreddit on Reddit that is currently part of the protest and is private. Thus it does not allow me to see the content.
If you are running your plex server as a system service, you can ignore this.
Even better, you can suppress it by launching Plex Media Server.exe with the optional command line parameter -noninteractive.
Thanks for the reply. It’s not running as a system service (per se)…installed from the installer package. I just had to do some tweaking to get Plex to start automatically when the machine boots instead of waiting until the user is logged in.
I did do a search for running Plex as a system service. Seems it’s only able to do so via 3rd party software (GitHub - cjmurph/PmsService: Plex Media Server service wrapper for windows) and results tell me I would loose hardware transcoding if I do that. Plus, it says after upgrading, I’d have to restart the service manually.
Right now, it’s working perfectly for me I was just more concerned about the error message every 5 seconds. I will dig around and see if there’s a way to use the -noninteractive flag with my current config.
You might be starting PMS under a different Windows user account than the one you are using to log on. That would also likely cause the error to appear.
I went and looked at the latest version of the PMS Service from Github (instead of the Google search result). The search result was an older link. The latest version seems to work perfectly. So I installed it to run Plex as a system service using the local account with the -noninteractive option. No more error.
