Do you think it is worth writing how to do this up in the rclone wiki
I am sorry that it doesn’t completely solved the issue, but at least it makes the problem happen much less.
I do believe it’s worthwhile mentioning that we can use nssm to start rclone as a service on Windows. Instruction of using nssm can be found at: https://nssm.cc/usage.
The forum discussion is at: Installing rclone mount on Windows as service?.
The current instruction on the “rclone mount” page that "It is also possible to start a drive from the SYSTEM account (using the WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure) " doesn’t seem to work for me when I tried WinFsp. Perhaps I simply didn’t configure WinFsp correctly because of lack of instructions, or it might be just be on the roadmap of WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure?
Thank you for all your help! I will continue to try and monitor and report back if I find out more!