About a month ago I did a Win 11 reset on my machine. Since then, everytime I reboot, I get a new Plex server instance started. Both the old and the new server have the same name, but the old server is no longer available, and I have to manually delete it, and then repin my libraries to my Home. A…

When you launch Plex are you running it as admin or as a regular user?

Admin, just like before the reset.

Thats your problem, you shouldnt Run As Administrator when launching plex. I just have it running regularly and dont have issues. I suspect its some kind of registry/file permissions issue.

I don’t run as administrator, but the account running it is an admin account.

Can we get a copy of the server logs then? they may provide some insight

See the yellow line to server logs

I think the issue might be that two different users on the machine were starting servers. Could that cause it?

[image] cmcgill: Could that cause it? YES .

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New Plex server after reboot

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OttoKerner October 24, 2024, 9:57am 11

This is a typical use case where running PMS as a Windows service makes much more sense.

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