What the @%* is an interactive window station?

[Andy G]

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

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=interactive+window+station

 

[Andy G]

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