OK. So based on what you just said, some progress being made. I pulled up the Task Manager and had a look in ‘Services’.
“Netcam Studio service 64” was showing as stopped. So I right clicked to to “Start” and the status changed to “Starting” and then “Running”. My phone pinged, and I then knew that it would be working - and indeed it was. So now I’m a bit confused. I don’t believe that it has ever been an automatically starting service at Windows boot time. I have always had to start it with the blue icon, and it always has started like that no problem, indicating, from what you say, that it indeed was not automatically started. So I feel that the Windows update has actually done something to stop the server start utility - blue icon - from working. Add to that that the service was never started automatically, and that takes us to where we are (were) right now with the server not running.
So I guess that the easiest way to resolve this for now is to make sure that the service is listed to start automatically at Windows start up. I’ll have to look at how to do that - unless it’s a couple of keystrokes that you happen to know off the top of your head ??