This may actually be the best long term solution given how easily they say it can be used to restore from a bad windows error. The kids could still use it for casual browsing etc - and because its protected, every day when the pc reboots - it restartss back to EXACTLY the same initial setup - no changes to the system, so the kids cant damage anything and they can use the pc also! This is free and would allow me to just leave the pc logged in without password at all. This looks awesome - and should help with corruptions and data loss also. I will probably stick with this for a while - but I did also look at one other option / workaround. I'm thinking I'll add some scheduled backups and system restore points also. May eventually pushthat out to every 2 days - to allow for backups and updates - maybe i'll Sleep it only. I created a daily Task Schedule to shut the pc down every night at 1.30am (Should be ok.) and its ready for the cycle to repeat daily. Plex service starts automatically, and its all ready to go. Much easier than all the previous attempts to launch Plex behind the lock screen. Voila! - next best thing and it wasnt hard to do at all. Then, exiting screensaver requires a password! After 1 minute up time (when exactly does windows start counting this from?) - Screensaver kicks in. So now my Plex media server boots straight into the desktop (UEFI turns pc on at 6am) without needing me to enter a password. Instead, I did find a way to bypass the Windows login - quite easy as it turns out! One of many guides on how to do this: That would have been ideal as Plex would run and the pc would stay behind a password from the very start. So I drew a blank on how to run the Plex "service" before logging in. The idea hadn't occured to me previously, otherwise I would have done this years ago!
Heres my own answer to my question! I am really happy with how its turned out so I figured it may be useful for someone else in future.
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