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

Hi Xircal,

Not to bury the lede, I've followed your instructions, BITS is running, and the latest security patches have been applied. 

Many thanks. Thanks for responding so promptly, thanks for the clarity of your advice, and thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise with those who now rely on technologies that we may comprehend on the grossest level but can't hope to master.  I guess that's been the human condition since well before the  invention of horseshoes.

I'm thinking that my first step on January's Patch Tuesday will be to download the January IE8 update patch and install it immediately.

Thanks once again.

mchutch2

You're welcome mchutch 2

And yes, definitely install the IE8 patch manually before you go visit WUD. That'll likely be the same for Feb, March and April I suspect.

Hi Xircal,

Not to bury the lede, I've followed your instructions, BITS is running, and the latest security patches have been applied. 

Many thanks. Thanks for responding so promptly, thanks for the clarity of your advice, and thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise with those who now rely on technologies that we may comprehend on the grossest level but can't hope to master.  I guess that's been the human condition since well before the  invention of horseshoes.

I'm thinking that my first step on January's Patch Tuesday will be to download the January IE8 update patch and install it immediately.

Thanks once again.

mchutch2

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.

Hi mc...

If you only have qmgr.dll in C:\WINDOWS\system32, then do the following.

Open the system32 folder, right click and choose "New", then "Folder". Rename the folder to bits in lowercase.

Stay in the system32 folder and find qmgr.dll

Right click it and choose Copy.

Go to the bits folder you just created and choose Paste. You should see it appear in there. 

Close Windows Explorer.

Go to Start, Run and copy/paste: regsvr32 qmgr.dll and click OK

Do the same with this file: regsvr32 qmgrprxy.dll

Reboot the PC and then copy/paste this command into the Run field:%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %windir%\inf\qmgr.inf

When you're prompted to insert the Windows installation CD, ignore that and in the dialog box at the bottom, change the path to C:\WINDOWS\system32 and then click OK.

Reboot again

Open Services, double click BITS and click the Start button in the General tab.

If you get an error,  go to Start, Run again and then copy/paste this command and click OK: Reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS\Parameters /v ServiceDll /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d %windir%\System32\qmgr.dll

Reboot once more.

Go to the Services menu, and try and start BITS again

If it doesn't start, or if you get another error, go to Run and copy/paste this command next: Reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup

Reboot again.

Try and start BITS once more.

Providing it starts, go to this link and download the December IE8 update patch using IE: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=41404

Choose "Run" when you get the prompt to install it immediately.

Go to the WUD update site and it should download OK. 

Don't skip any steps to reboot because you're making changes to the registry. If you don't reboot, they have no effect. 

Let me know how you get on please.