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Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft segregated the desktop used by services from the user's desktop. Special configuration is needed on Windows to get USE_VISIBLE_DESTOP to work when Condor is running as a service. These instructions apply to Windows 7 also.

The basic steps are

• Start the Interactive Services Detection service
• Enable Allow service to interact with desktop for the condor service

Both of these things can be accomplished via the Windows Services Management Console.

• Open the Services Management Console:
  1. Click on the Start Menu
  2. Open the Control Panel
  3. Select Administrative Tools
  4. Select Services

If the Services option is missing, then use the following steps to access it:

1. Choose Run from the Start Menu
2. Type services.msc and press Enter or click OK
• Enable interactive services using Services Management Console:
  1. Find the Interactive Services Detection service
  2. Bring up its properties by double-clicking on it
  3. Change the Startup type to Automatic
  4. Click on the Start button below the Service status label
  5. Click OK

• Make the Condor service interactive using Services Management Console:
  1. Find the Condor service
  2. Bring up its properties by double-clicking on it
  3. Switch to the Log On page
  4. Check the Allow service to interact with desktop option
  5. Click OK

Thanks to Ben Burnett for this information which was copied from his original post on his Wiki -http://ben.versionzero.org/wiki/Condor_Enable_Visible_Desktop_on_Vista

This work is supported by NSF under Cooperative Agreement OAC-2030508 as part of the PATh Project. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. Site built using CVSTrac.