What the @%* is an interactive window station?

I'm trying to get a flash drive working. It's an HP USB Digital drive, and
uses an SD card inserted into a carrier with a USB connector. This worked
absolutely fine on the machine it came with, a previous HP notebook running
XP.

I now have a new HP/Compaq 6720s notebook running Vista Home Basic, and
guess what, when I plug in the flash drive the PC searches all over the show
for a driver. It says it's found one, but encountered a problem while
trying to install it. The error message says "this operation needs an
interactive window station", which rates fairly high on the unhelpful
message scales. What do I do with that?

The annoying thing is these drives are just supposed to use a bog-standard
native driver, are they not?

Grateful for any help!

Andy

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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Andy G" wrote:

> I'm trying to get a flash drive working. It's an HP USB Digital drive, and
> uses an SD card inserted into a carrier with a USB connector. This worked
> absolutely fine on the machine it came with, a previous HP notebook running
> XP.
>
> I now have a new HP/Compaq 6720s notebook running Vista Home Basic, and
> guess what, when I plug in the flash drive the PC searches all over the show
> for a driver. It says it's found one, but encountered a problem while
> trying to install it. The error message says "this operation needs an
> interactive window station", which rates fairly high on the unhelpful
> message scales. What do I do with that?
>
> The annoying thing is these drives are just supposed to use a bog-standard
> native driver, are they not?
>
> Grateful for any help!
>
> Andy
>
>

Thanks for trying, but I'm not a developer or a techie. I don't have the
faintest idea what all that wonderful information means or what to do with
it.

I still inhabit that fantasy world where people believe that Plug and Play
means you plug something in and it works.... Especially when it's something
as basic as a USB hard drive, a USB flash drive, or God forbid, a DVD drive
that came with the notebook and used to work fine.

I would not mind, if in the course of trying to fix problems, I didn't get
useless error messages like "requires interactive window station" that
no-one seems to know what to do about.

Andy



"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> http://search.microsoft.com/results....window+station
> --
> Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
>
>
> "Andy G" wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get a flash drive working. It's an HP USB Digital drive,
>> and
>> uses an SD card inserted into a carrier with a USB connector. This
>> worked
>> absolutely fine on the machine it came with, a previous HP notebook
>> running
>> XP.
>>
>> I now have a new HP/Compaq 6720s notebook running Vista Home Basic, and
>> guess what, when I plug in the flash drive the PC searches all over the
>> show
>> for a driver. It says it's found one, but encountered a problem while
>> trying to install it. The error message says "this operation needs an
>> interactive window station", which rates fairly high on the unhelpful
>> message scales. What do I do with that?
>>
>> The annoying thing is these drives are just supposed to use a
>> bog-standard
>> native driver, are they not?
>>
>> Grateful for any help!
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>