Re: [HTCondor-users] USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP=True and Windows 10

[Grant Goodyear <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, crud!

Thank you very much for the response. We'll have to work around it, then.

I forgot to check the wiki (oops!), although I did check the docs for the latest version. The team might want to add a note to the official documenation, too.

Many thanks,

Grant

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 10:57 AM John M Knoeller <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Microsoft has been making it harder for services to interact with the Usersâs desktop in each release.

Now it appears that they Âhave finally turned this off for good.

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In the Windows 10, build 1703 release, they removed the âinteractive services detectionâ service, which is needed to make USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP work.

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See this page

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-10-1703-removed-features

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And Our instructions for enabling visible desktop

https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=UseVisibleDesktopVista

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Interestingly, you can still mark as service as âallowed to interact with the desktopâ but there is no way to see the services desktop anymore.

so Iâm not sure what the checkbox is supposed to do.

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-tj

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From: HTCondor-users <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Grant Goodyear
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2019 3:09 PM
To: htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [HTCondor-users] USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP=True and Windows 10

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We recently updated our condor Windows machines from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Condor on our windows machines has always been run with the USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP varialble set to True, so that on the rare occasions where an executable throws up an error box we can log in and interact with it. After updating to Windows 10 (with htcondor-8.1.2, and then 8.9.2), there no longer seems to be a notification announcing that one could see the alternative desktop by clicking a button. The manual doesn't seem to have changed, as far as I can tell. Help?

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Thanks,

Grant Goodyear

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