I wanted to see if HW decode helped with LiveTV quality while watching football (see other thread I started, it doesn’t).
That meant I had to stop running PMS as a service since PLEX introduced a bug back around May that causes PMS to crash if HW acceleration is enabled and it’s running as a service.
After digging around I found this, Auto Login for Windows.
I simply disabled the Plex Service (Manage->Services and Applications->Services->PlexService DISABLE).
Reboot
Install Auto Logon linked above and provide your credentials and set the PMS executable to start on login
Reboot
I set my autolock timer to a couple minutes as doing this can present problems on easily accessible machines. Mine runs headless in a closet so I’m not very worried.
