Plex Media Server stopping (the plex process ends without warning)

Here recently (just really noticed it the past day or so), for whatever reason, the Plex Media Server just suddenly stops running/working. I’ll be watching/going to watch a movie or something <1: typically in bed, on my phone, 2: one that I’ve watched before>, and go to play it, get the orange animated “loading circle”; The time/length of movie is displayed at the bottom… Ex: 01:36:32 …

Currently running Windows 10 Home Version 1803, OS Build 17134.112 … Installed on (updated) 5/23/18 Just installed to the latext Plex Server Version 1.13.2.5154 late last night/early this morning

I was in the process of organizing my movies into various collections, and kept getting “server cannot be found/is unavailable” … I check my taskbar and when my cursor reaches the plex server icon, it disappears. Check Task Manager and “Plex Media Server” isn’t shown/listed… So I have to restart it, let it load, webpage refreshes and I continue…until it does it again… Check TM and Plex Media Server isn’t listed again.

I just tested by loading the PMS, and opened my clock to watch the timing… it disappeared/ended/quit/stopped roughly two minutes after starting.

Seeing same on same version. See there were no replies. Hmmm…

I got the problem taken care of. Now, trying to remember what I wound up doing… I believe it was an error in windows update, so I think I had to delete, and re-do that. Afterwards, it worked just fine, no more sudden, incomprehensible stops…
(In fact, the more I type that out, the more I’m sure that’s what it was, cause I wound up getting ahold of windows tech help

Any idea how you identify the update causing the error?

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