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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.
+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 HTCondor 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
+*: Enable _Allow service to interact with desktop_ for the HTCondor service
 
 Both of these things can be accomplished via the Windows Services Management Console.
 
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
 1:: Click on the _Start_ button below the _Service status_ label
 1:: Click _OK_
 
-*: Make the Condor service interactive using Services Management Console:
+*: Make the HTCondor service interactive using Services Management Console:
 
-1:: Find the *Condor* service
+1:: Find the *HTCondor* service
 1:: Bring up its properties by double-clicking on it
 1:: Switch to the _Log On_ page
 1:: Check the _Allow service to interact with desktop_ option

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.