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

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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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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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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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2013-11-20T05:04:00+00:00

Ive been having the same problem with BITS and my BITS query in CMD is exactly the same as the one you posted, however, even though i was able to get BITS to show in services, it still doesnt want to start, either in Automatic or Manual start. I still get the same old message: "Could not start BITS on Local Computer. Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified." Both of the dll files that are supposed to be in the system to make BITS start and run ARE in the system32 files. I dunno exactly what the problem seems to be but im about ready to throw this laptop as far as i can throw a rock!

Also, i THINK BITS might be having something to do with an RPC problem ive been having. I noticed when i put my laptop in 'sleep mode' and after a few hours i wake it back up and i get an error of RPC being terminated unexpectedly and i must reboot the system in order for the network icon in my taskbar to show up in there again. So now ive just been leaving my laptop on and fixed the power settings to not do anything when i close the laptop lid.

BTW, im on XP SP3.
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2013-11-04T16:57:04+00:00

Thanks ElderL, that sure sheds more light on the situation.
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2013-11-04T16:43:22+00:00

You can also reinstall BITS by navigating to c:\windows\inf and right clicking and choosing to Install:

qmgr.inf

It will then ask you for your CD so it can get qmgr.dll from your genuine bootable XP installation CD that most people don't seem to have, but that should already be in system32 (or dllcache) to you can point the install to that folder and the install will continue.

Of course you and have a genuine bootable XP installation CD with SP3 on it already and we know how to unhide the inf folder and show extensions for known file types and all that stuff but that might be too complicated for some folks so I just made the copy/paste registry import that does the same thing. As long as the qmrg.dll file is present, you should be in good shape.

As far as I can reproduce by deleting the BITS Service on purpose, ether way will work as long as qmgr.dll is somewhere you can find it (or on my SkyDrive)

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=6a7e789cab1d6f39&id=6A7E789CAB1D6F39!311

Some other guy had a BITS problem a while ago and when we queried the BITS Service from a command prompt it was messed up (sort of like like you describe).

When you query the BITS Service from a command prompt:

sc qc bits

You should see this:

[SC] GetServiceConfig SUCCESSSERVICE_NAME: bits TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS START_TYPE : 3 DEMAND_START ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs LOAD_ORDER_GROUP : TAG : 0 DISPLAY_NAME : Background Intelligent Transfer Service DEPENDENCIES : RpcSs SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem

In Services, notice that I have my BITS set to Manual start since there is no need for BITS to be running all day with nothing to do. It will start if/when it needs to start.

Even if BITS is afflicted, I just install over the top of it and it seems to be okay.

The SP2 qmgr.dll is version 6.0.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148)

The SP3 qmgr.dll is version 6.7.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2108) not the same as SP2.

So I don't think a SP2 qmgr.dll will work on an SP3 system.

Use away!
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