Interactive services detection a program running on this computer

Now the best I can tell this is a request from MS asking me to tell them why I uninstalled the Bing search program and wanting me to fill in their feedback form to explain why. I can understand how frustrating it can be to not be able to get rid of a constant, blinking message. You can disable the Interactive Services Detection, by following these steps:. Type services. Right-click the Interactive Services Detection and then click Properties. If the Startup type box is set to Manual , change it to Disabled.

Click OK to close the Properties window. Right-click the Interactive Services Detection , and then click Stop. Restart the computer and check if the issue is resolved. If you wish to know more about Interactive Services Detection, please refer to this link:. Was this reply helpful? It you activate the window and click Show program details , the bottom of the window expands to reveal information on the program trying to get your attention.

Here we see that it is the standard Notepad application running in Session 0 launched as a windows service by AlwaysUp :. Clicking View the message will transport you to the austere Session 0 desktop where you will see the window that may be trying to get your attention:.

Clicking Ask me later will dismiss the ISD window but only for minutes. Read on and learn three ways to dispatch the window permanently! You can always capture console output to a log file if necessary via controls on the Extras tab. If you never want to see Session 0, then your best option is to do away with interactive services detection altogether.

To prevent the service from starting:. Open the Services Control Panel Application services. Our free Switch to Session 0 utility will not work either. If you occasionally inspect Session 0, disabling it will be inconvenient. However, an interactive service can display a user interface and receive user input. Services running in an elevated security context, such as the LocalSystem account, should not create a window on the interactive desktop because any other application that is running on the interactive desktop can interact with this window.

This exposes the service to any application that a logged-on user executes. Also, services that are running as LocalSystem should not access the interactive desktop by calling the OpenWindowStation or GetThreadDesktop function. To create an interactive service, do the following when calling the CreateService function:. All services run in Terminal Services session 0. Therefore, if an interactive service displays a user interface, it is visible only to the user who connected to session 0. Because there is no way to guarantee that the interactive user is connected to session 0, do not configure a service to run as an interactive service under Terminal Services or on a system that supports fast user switching fast user switching is implemented using Terminal Services.

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