Plex doesn't start on reboot

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Server Version#: 1.29.1.6316
Player Version#: 4.93.2
I have recently put my server to reboot every night. Since then I have to log into the server and then bring plex up in a web client BEFORE plex web can access from another computer.
I thought that Plex was running as a service and that at a reboot would, Plex would automatically start.
Am I doing something wrong or missing a setting?
tia

EDIT: just noticed that leftclick Plex icon on taskbar list shows ‘Start Plex at login’ checked. I want it to start at boot.

Dsig
David Tod Sigafoos

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Note: I have checked Startup tab in taskmgr and Plex is listed there

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I found this thread … Start plex media server at login not working - #3 by shukim but it does not answer the question.

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Then you need to run it as a service, which Plex doesn’t support, but there’s 3rd. party tools that can assist with this

See: PMS as a service

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Thanks for the reply … sad that it isn’t part of plex. nothing worse then having to log into a machine and leave it running when not using … bad practice.
I’ll look at the article … thanks again

Dsig
David Tod Sigafoos

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Windows doesn’t allow system services access to the video hardware decoders.
You can run Plex as a service, but you’ll have to relinquish hardware accelerated video decoding.

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Does running under a specific user account created for running plex overcome this?
Yes running as System I can understand, but does running plex as computername/user1 not mean it is running under a username context having it’s own user profile and overcomes some of the limitations of running the service under Local System or Network Service?

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No. Any service is affected, no matter the user account it is running under.
If it were that simple, we would’ve went full service already along time ago.

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