Plex won't start on Windows boot

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I have been searching the forums and I cannot find an answer to this question, although I did find a comment that supports the behavior I am seeing.

When my Windows 10 PC reboots, Plex does not start until I log into the computer. As long as the computer is running there is no problem, but if the computer reboots, Plex will not run until I log in.

The problem is that this is a dedicated, headless PC that I use for my Plex server so I don’t know it rebooted until me or someone else goes to use Plex and I find out it doesn’t work. I simply RDP into the server and then Plex starts running.

Is there a way to start Plex when the PC boots and not wait for me to log on?

Thanks for any help!
John

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I actually took this as not being the ops issue.
If it’s headless and reboots it still requires the op to login and when he does Plex does load.

Unless I misunderstood I think the op will need either nssm to run Plex as a service or autologon by Sysinternals (from a Microsoft dev.)
@johnbucy If thats the case you should be able to Google “Plex nssm” or “Sysinternals autologon”.
Personally I use the latter.
Again apologies if I misunderstood.

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There is a third way by using the Windows task scheduler and using ‘system start’ as trigger.

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