Many users on various computer Internet forums complain that in a certain situation, for no apparent reason, for no reason, a notification appears on the screen, in the header of which there is an inscription “Detection of interactive services”, and the following is an even more obscure description. Let's try to consider what it is generally like to get rid of a constantly occurring message by disabling the corresponding component.
This can be done quite simply. But the most important question is how appropriate it is to carry out such actions. Consider all possible situations, and only after that each user will be able to conclude for himself whether to disable this service or not. But first things first.
What does Discovery of Interactive Services mean?
Let's start by understanding the essence of the operation of the Windows component itself. In a sense, he is responsible for the compatibility of legacy software with new operating systems. However, this is not exactly launching applications in compatibility mode, although it is very similar. Here the situation is somewhat different.
Suppose you have some kind of program that was originally designed to modify the server operating system Windows Server 2008 R2. The system administrator migrates the server to Windows Server 2012 and tries to run an application that worked in the previous version of the OS, but does not work in the new one. This is where the detection of interactive services is triggered, since the interface of the application itself can be displayed in the new OS only in the mode of the so-called zero session (at startup). The new system cannot display the program interface. And that is why, for compatibility, the process of discovering interactive services is also in progress.
In general, as the official description of the service says, this component warns the user about the need to manually grant permissions to display dialogs for running applications, and only as they appear.
But such situations are encountered not only on server operating systems. There are a lot of options for the appearance of such notifications. Sometimes a message box may indicate that some program needs permission to complete the process, and again, the reason is the problem of partial incompatibility of the launched application with the version of the operating system. But there are worse situations.
Interactive service discovery window options
Not to mention the manual or automatic launch of programs of outdated versions, quite often you can see the appearance of a window even when starting desktop versions, which is incredibly annoying for users.
So, for example, in Windows 7, the discovery of interactive services is triggered just after the system and its components are fully loaded. Why is that? There is no exact answer to this question, although it can be assumed that the user somehow activated this service, or installed obviously outdated programs on the system. It may well be that the uninstallation was not performed in full, and the residual components of the remote application remained in startup (although they may not be displayed in the standard section).
Disabling a service through the appropriate section
Now let's see how to disable this component. Two main methods can be used for this. The first option is to perform the necessary actions in the services section. You can get into it as quickly as possible through the "Run" console, in which the services.msc command is entered.
Here you need to find the appropriate component, enter the parameter editing window through a double click or RMB menu, and then press the stop button to start.
What type of startup to install?
The second point in solving the problem of how to disable the service is related to the choice of the type of start. There are two options: either disable the component by setting the appropriate value, or use manual start. What to prefer?
In this situation, the user needs to decide whether he intends to use old software products in the future that are incompatible with the system installed on his computer. If so, the start type is set to manual. Otherwise, the service is shut down completely.
Disabling a service through the registry
Also, discovery of interactive services can be disabled in the registry. The editor itself is called up via the program execution menu with the regedit command.
In it, you need to use the HKLM branch, go through the SYSTEM and CurrentControlSet sections to the Control directory, and open the Windows subfolder in it. On the right is the NoInterectiveServices key. Having entered the editing menu through the PCM menu or double-click, the parameter value should be changed from zero to one. If you still need to run old programs, you should not change the parameter.
Note: in order not to go through the registry keys for a long time, you can immediately search for a key by name using either the File menu or the combination of Ctrl + F. There is only one such parameter in the registry, so there should be no problems.
Instead of a total
In conclusion, it is worth noting that the system component described above, which is present in all relatively new Windows operating systems, is a unique tool because it allows you to run any, even the oldest, software product in their environment. If you use the start of such applications in compatibility mode when you activate the corresponding item in the shortcut properties menu, it may not work, because outdated systems that the program was designed for are simply not in the list. And this component makes it possible to use them almost completely. Another thing is that current users actually never use such applications, therefore, of course, they will not need this service under any circumstances.
But the system administrators of enterprises that use outdated software (for example, "Effect Office" 2.8) such a service is useful. In a sense, it will even become the only panacea that will help avoid compatibility problems. So they certainly have no reason to deactivate such a unique component (if you want, an “adapter”).