Interactive Service Detection message

Owned by Fernando Sayago (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Oct 11, 2018
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Problem

Windows 'Interactive Services Detection' is showing message stating that 'A program running on this computer is trying to display a message'.

    


According to Microsoft: There could be a couple of reasons why this is occurring. However in most cases, the service experienced an “unhandled exception”. Unhandled exceptions are errors that the programmer didn’t expect and didn’t handle with code. Most people call this a 'crash'.


Usually, the first step to troubleshoot this issue is looking for the program that's causing it and viewing the Message to understand the exception or possible problem with the application.

    


Visit these links to get more info about this issue:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patricka/2011/03/14/troubleshooting-interactive-services-detection/

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/interactive-services-detection-locks-computer/21242705-c6a0-4ea3-9518-fa885cec1148

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patricka/2010/04/27/what-is-interactive-services-detection-and-why-is-it-blinking-at-me/

Set service to Manual startup

Finally, if decided so, the service can be set to Manual (or Disabled) Startup Type (disabling the messages to appear).


1. Open the Services management console (Start > Run... > services.msc > Enter)

2. Locate the 'Interactive Services Detection' service.

3. Stop it (if started) and open its properties.

4. Set the Startup Type to Manual. Then hit OK to confirm.