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

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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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.

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

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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

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Any idea how you identify the update causing the error?

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