Windows 7 forum: Interactive services detection

I saw that post, but didn't quite understand what the one poster was saying about Win 7. In discussing interactive services detection, he says, "In Win 7 you won't see anything cause it is blocked." Both that statement, and the one you quoted ("Microsoft no longer permits services running under System to interact with users.") imply that I should not be able to display a message on my Win 7 machine from my XP machine *at all.* But in practice that is not entirely true. I *can* display a message on the Win 7 machine, I just need to go through a Windows prompt beforehand (the interactive services detection prompt). I am trying to display the message without any Windows prompt.

If I cannot display my message without any Windows prompt, as a Windows novice, is there any way I can get around this? I basically want to transmit a "yes" or "no" to my Win 7 machine from my XP machine.

I'm still a little unclear. Are you saying there is absolutely no way to send a message to my Win 7 machine, or no way to send a message *without a Windows prompt?*

From my Win XP machine, I am using psexec to run a simple exe on my Win 7 machine. The exe (housed on the Win 7 machine and which I created with autoit) displays a dialogue box with some text and a button that reads "OK." When I run the exe via psexec, I get the interactive services detection prompt. After I answer affirmatively to its prompts, I then see the dialogue box in question.

Thanks for your help. This problem is related, but not exactly the same as my other post.

1. I know I sent (and received) the message. I was just trying to ascertain whether you were trying to tell me it was not feasible.

2. As I said in the original post, I already tried disabling the interactive services detection service. That resulted in no message sent at all, instead of the intended message + interactive services detection prompts.

My goal is to start an application on my desktop (located in a room far far away), walk away from it, and have it send a message to my laptop screen (located right next to me) when finished. Yes I get the message, but not after going through two additional screens due to Windows notifications. I'm merely wondering if I can eliminate those two additional screens. Bear with me as I'm not a Windows black belt.

OK I understand now. Thanks for being patient. I will look into the other methods, but I think they may be a bit over my head.

It appears that msg.exe will do what I want, but I'll keep your ideas in mind.