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Is there a way to disable Interactive Services Detection notification for printer in Windows 7?

Anonymous
2011-05-14T22:00:58+00:00

When my printer gets low on ink, nothing happens with the printer.  I have noticed an Interactive Services Detection icon will appear on the bottom tool bar.  When clicking it, I get a traditional error/information box stating Interactive Services Detection has a message, and choices to view message now.  I click on that, and another traditional error/information box appears that indicates I am low on ink.  I click on the Resume Printing and still have another box asking if I want to return to my original screen.

Question....How can I eliminate the icon at the bottom, which is hard to recognize, and just have the traditional error/information boxes appear in the middle of my screen?

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-05-15T17:09:58+00:00

    Hi,

    Follow the below steps to change the notification setting of your computer and check if it helps:

    a)      Click on Startand type in serices.msc in the search box**.**

    b)      Locate the Interactive Services Detection.

    c)      Right click on the service and stop it.

    Note: Interactive Services Detection enables user notification of user input for interactive services, which enables access to dialogs created by interactive services when they appear. If this service is stopped, notifications of new interactive service dialogs will no longer function and there might not be access to interactive service dialogs. If this service is disabled, both notifications of and access to new interactive service dialogs will no longer function.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-09-07T01:34:18+00:00

    To disable Interactive Services Dialog Detection messages in Vista, search the word “services” in your Start menu, click on Services when it comes up, and find Interactive Services Detection in the list of services. Right click it, and click Properties. Here, you can either Stop the service, or choose “Disabled” from the Startup Type menu. Either of these things will stop these messages from appearing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-08-22T04:39:39+00:00

    Thank You so Very Very Much! That message was a pain in the behind.  You have my undying gratitude!

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-06-05T06:42:05+00:00

    I am using a shared computer. I am having to deal with "interactive services detection" messages every few minutes (all day long) and it is getting very tedious. Whenever I click on the icon it never tells me useful information, and I can't make the flags stop happening. I tried the above technique and I don't have permission to disable the program on this computer. Is there some setting I could change so that I just don't have to see the messages any more?

    Thanks.

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