Hello, I see many people here want Plex to startup with the PC regardless of whether a user is logged in. I like the idea of the PMS as a service wrapper, but always prefer to do things natively in the OS if possible. I don't really want to move my library to a location and set permissions etc to m…

Plex Media Server as Startup Task in 2012R2

sa2000 April 13, 2016, 8:42pm 5

%USERNAME% is an environment variable - automatically filled in

But for a newbie I would recommend going for the packaged solution : PMS As A Service

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