BITS service is missing, how can I get it back?

Anonymous
2013-11-04T01:30:12+00:00

Original Title - BITS service    

BITS service is missing in windows xp how can I get it back, i do not have the orginal cd, help.

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Anonymous
2013-12-12T14:25:13+00:00

Hi Xircal,

The December Patch Tuesday has me plumbing depths of Windows XP I never want to see again.  While exploring the posts in the community, I've found your advice extremely helpful and have managed to get the BITS running again on my venerable Dell XP desktop followed by a successful update of all the security patches.  I've had less success with an installation of XP that I run on a Mac in a VMWare virtual machine.  Until Tuesday, it had run for a couple of years without any problems.  Now, however, BITS is balking.

At first, it didn't exist on the services list,  Employing ElderL's registry fix, I've been able to add BITS to the services list. When I try to start the service, I get an alert stating "Could not start BITS service on Local Computer.  Error 1290: 0x50a." Thinking I need to follow your script to register the service, I started by checking to see that the qmgr.dll file is in the three locations you've listed.  It's not.  Search finds the file only in C:\WINDOWS\system32.  In fact, the folders C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 and C:\WINDOWS\system32\bits don't exist in my WINDOWS folder.  So I'm stopped when I hit your proviso, "Provided they're all present."  System Properties confirms that I have SP3 installed in a 2002 version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

Can you advise me how to proceed?  Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous
2013-11-23T23:50:45+00:00

Thank you for the link ElderL I actually found some help there :)

I was pointed to a Link

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/misc-registry-fixes-for-windows-7-xp-vista/

and it pointed me down to #14 in the list which I did download and run

I did manually go back to the services from the administrative tools and right click to open the properties for BITS and click the start

I have now returned to my Windows Updater and it was able to start and is currently Downloading the updates :)  feeling very optomisic  ATM

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-12-23T20:14:59+00:00

    It would be helpful to find the posts and thread where it was described specifically that the 3 incorrect values were causing a problem that was being reported fixed by the manual regedit removal of the 3 incorrect entries.  So the further debate about this will have to await finding those posts which I am certain I did read.  You seem to be overly sensitive about this and I have no dog in this fight because I never had the BITS issue to contend with on this install, but how I avoided it or what caused it on other abandoned installs I have never identified.  However, based upon my recollection about those 3 values being reported to be an issue and the removal of those 3 values described, I reasonably conclude that at least for some users it was a problem.   500 million I don't know what is the number of XP users having issues with windows updates or what is the distribution of error types. I can only guess based upon what has been posted mainly in this group.  And based on that I don't think it is an obscure problem that only has affected a small minority of cognitvely challenged users who are born complainers inventing problems about which to gripe.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-12-23T19:25:58+00:00

    Ten other users? Give me a break.  How about one user not illusioned or confused from frustration and fatigue sort of like battle fatigue from struggling with a dysfunctional XP computer?   I'll go look for one of those and if I find even one much less ten I'll get back to you on this next year :-)

    Keith,

    10 out of 500 million worldwide. Not so much to ask is it?

    Incidentally, the reg fix which started the ball rolling was this one I believe posted by TheWraith: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_update/windows-update-died-tried-many-solutions-still/7d5ec39f-086f-471f-a713-b195d4c4b24d

    You'll note that it's also been marked as "Answer" in spite of containing references to "DelayedAutoStart" and "ServiceSidType" which, according to Doug is going to cause problems. That being the case, why have 13 other users also marked it as such?

    Actually, I don't think those additional entries will do anything because "DelayedAutoStart" wasn't introduced until Vista according to MSDN - BITS Startup Type

    That being the case, XP would likely ignore commands it wasn't programmed to perform.

    While I wish Doug all the best with his quest, I think there's a definite danger of jumping to conclusions especially in the light of the email which appeared not so long ago pointing to WUA as the likely culprit. You've all read that I assume, but for those who haven't, here it is again: http://marc.info/?l=patchmanagement&m=138696900324972&w=2

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-12-23T17:06:26+00:00

    Ten other users? Give me a break.  How about one user not illusioned or confused from frustration and fatigue sort of like battle fatigue from struggling with a dysfunctional XP computer?   I'll go look for one of those and if I find even one much less ten I'll get back to you on this next year :-)

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