

If you can’t uninstall the program via the Control Panel or if the DLL is still present even after uninstalling, the information from your search will typically help provide steps on how to remove it. Tip!: Be sure to restart your computer after uninstalling a program for this. You can then try performing a standard uninstall via the Control Panel. That should help you identify the program responsible for the DLL. For instance, you might search Google for PCProtect.dll. The easiest thing to do is simply to search for the DLL name in your favorite search engine. Related Page: Where are DLL files stored in Windows What to Do? Try Uninstalling Related Program If you’re experiencing repeated Plex Media Server crashes, you might wish to search to see whether you have any of the DLLs listed earlier on your system. LavasoftTCPService.dll (Web Companion / may be associated with ‘K-Lite Codec Pack’).The following is a non-exhaustive list of DLLs that have been found to interfere in the past: The mswsock.dll crashes most commonly occur due to interference from malware or adware DLLs (or, very occasionally, from DLLs for legitimate programs). The repeated Plex Media Server crashes may be caused by crashes of the network-related mswsock.dll Windows library. More rarely, this can also manifest as having network or internet services/access suddenly stop working on the computer, usually requiring a reboot to allow network connections again. This occurs repeatedly, possibly as often as every 20-30 minutes.Plex Media Server.exe disappears from the Processes list in your Task Manager.


If you would like to change to the latest repo to get faster updates to Plex than every month or so you can do that by adding the latest package repo. Plex is now ready to use and you can navigate to it with this URL. The IP address will depend upon the DHCP assigned address, or whichever static address you have assigned it. Next, start Plex with the following command:.

The end result is a Plex Media Server running on FreeBSD or in a jail, either one you will end up with a stable and reliable media server. This guide also will also apply to FreeNAS FreeNAS 9.x jails.
