Win 10
Server Version#: 1.18.1.1973
Player Version#: 1.18.1.1973
Recently I’ve noticed that my PMS is not in the system tray after a reboot/reset.
When I right click the PMS icon, the “Run on windows boot” option is not there, ticked or unticked.
Any chance it will be coming back?
Version 1.18.1.1973:
Probably need some further details about your environment as it seems to be working fine here on Win10.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I restarted my PC in the meantime because it was nagging me for an update, but when I rebooted, the Plex icon wasn’t in the taskbar and it was definitely not running (i went to http://127.0.0.1:32400/ in my browser and it returned the ‘website unreachable’ error). I then checked in Task Manager and I was only able to find the Plex Update Service there. After I manually launched Plex, the icon showed up in the taskbar and the option from your screen was there, I must’ve just missed it or talked myself into thinking it wasn’t there, becauses it’s not working for me.
I’ve done some research about alternate ways of autostarting plex, but it looks like all of them should be working:
I’ve tried running the Repair tool of the uninstaller, but that didn’t help. Plex starts and runs fine when I click it’s icon in Start or on the desktop, but as soon as I reboot, the above happens.
I have an idea:
@OttoKerner
I’ll call in the Ninja…
What happens after you reboot?
Normally, Windows will just show the logon screen. At this time, no user is logged on in Windows. So Plex will not run as well.
Or did you run Plex as a system service?
My PMS is running on my day-to-day Desktop, which is on most of the time, but when I have to reboot it, I have it auto-logon (skips password) to my default, Admin-level account, straight to the desktop. Other apps that I have set up to autostart have no issue, only Plex recently. I’ve tried various reboot methods as well (it seems there’s a difference between using the Start Menu -> Power -> Reboot and using the Alt-F4 dialog from desktop (the latter apparently foregoes session saving))
I assume it must be something that MS did in the newest Win 10 refresh.
You could experiment with this policy (only Win 10 Pro or better)
start gpedit.msc, go to Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Logon Option
Set the Policy Name: Sign-in last interactive user automatically after a system-initiated restart to Disabled.
Sorry, only Win10 Home, so that’s a no-go.
I’m not an expert, but I fail to see, how that could be Win10’s fault, though. As I’ve said - the only thing different from a ‘vanilla’ Win10 logon is tat it automatically logs me in (I’ve set it up myself immediately after I built this PC and installed the OS, like Method I here: https://win10faq.com/auto-login-windows-10/). There is no other visible account on the system and, to reiterate: it only started happening recently (two, maybe three Plex updates ago, and I’m on the Public branch).
I just had Plex update to 1.18.1.2019, that didn’t solve the issue.
I’m attaching my Logs: Plex Media Server Logs_2019-11-11_23-48-13.zip (4.0 MB) Sorry about the VERBOSE, I tried switching to DEBUG and I must’ve done something wrong.
Note: the latest PMS logfile is a clean start (when I clicked the icon to run it, to collect the above).
So, I’m guessing there’s no obvious solution?
Sorry, no. If it were a known issue, we’d see a lot more reports about it.
Have you at least tried my suggestion? It might be impactful enough to change something about the startup timing of some of the involved Windows components, so that the startup of Plex server can succeed.
Every Policy can has an assigned branch and value in the Windows registry.
The one for the above described is here
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableAutomaticRestartSignOn"=dword:00000001
If you copy this into a text file,
save it under the name DisableAutomaticRestartSignOn.reg and make a double click on it, you can set it in your registry.
Let’s see if it has any impact on Windows Home.
If you want to reverse it, simply change the value 1 to 0.
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