I’m having similar issues as well, including the fact that Plex Media Server appears in my Task Manager but doesn’t run.  The next thing I’m going to try is installing Plex in a different folder to see if that’s an issue, as well as clean out the %localappdata%\Temp folder.
 The next thing I’m going to try is installing Plex in a different folder to see if that’s an issue, as well as clean out the %localappdata%\Temp folder.