Interactive service blocked in Windows 10

Question

On Windows 10 Enterprise v1909 we have a program that installs a service. The service won't start because it is marked as an interactive service which is now blocked. Has anyone found a way around this or if not could, someone point me to official Microsoft documentation that this is no longer supported. I've found plenty of third-party websites that talk about interactive services no longer working but nothing from Microsoft.

Answer 1

Take a look at the following article:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/services/interactive-services

It mentioned "Services cannot directly interact with a user as of Windows Vista. Therefore, the techniques mentioned in the section titled Using an Interactive Service should not be used in new code."

Answer 2

Hi,
Unfortunately, just as you found, Microsoft has fully disabled Interactive Service Detection starting with Windows 10 Build 1803 and Windows Server 2016 and 2019.
There is no way to start the service now.
Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful.
Best Regards,
Carl