"This operation requires an interactive window station"

[Fuzenkira]

I have recently been getting errors when windows update tries to install/update drivers. Windows update simply says that there was an error while installing updates and asks to try again, to no avail. When I attempted to manually fix the issue by updating the driver within device manager, I received the error "This operation requires an interactive window station".

Originally the problem was for my bluetooth driver that I had uninstalled, and was trying to reinstall. This issue was fixed by reinstalling windows. Windows installed the driver during setup. However, now I am receiving the same error when I plug in my secondary monitor, and my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4.

Has anyone found a fix for this? I searched other forums as well and the closest solution I found was to create another user account with admin rights and that should work. I enabled my built-in admin account and tried, but that did not work.

System:

Computer Type Laptop
System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Envy 17 3200
OS Windows 10 Pro x64
CPU Intel Core i7-3820QM 2.70GHz
Motherboard InsydeH20 03.72.05F.0b
Memory 16384MB
Graphics Card AMD Radeon HD 7800M Series

Thanks!

 

[W Fallon]

Here's 2 answers that I found rather quickly:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/235014-44-this-operation-requires-interactive-window-station

http://www.eightforums.com/drivers-hardware/66970-operation-requires-interactive-window-station.html

The real fix is rather complicated, if those 2 fixes don't work, just do a clean reinstall, it'll be a lot easier.

Or you can look at these:

https://www.google.com/search?q=interactive+window+station&oq=interactive+window+station&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

The whole thing begins with a faulty original installation of the OS.

Bill

 

[W Fallon]

I did forget one thing, "DO NOT" let Microsoft update any of your drivers. Always get the updates from your PC manufacturer or the driver manufacturer. PC manufacturer is best.

Bill