Not sure about your specific question, but, this article might help...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842309
-Frank
"stevennlv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I know for a fact that I was previously.
>
> I gave up trying to repair it and just reformatted / re-installed
> everything.
>
> My system was running perfect for a few days and all the old problems are
> now solved.
>
> But now I have one new problem: The Background Intelligent Transfer
> Service
> keeps changing it's setting from "Manual" to "Automatic" at boot.
>
> I set a lot of services to disable / manual for security / performance
> reasons.
>
> But I also have a lot of new updates:
> .Net frame work 3.0 (Had 2.0)
> ctfmon.exe (Not sure why I have it though? It came in on the last batch of
> updates, I hope, even though I don't have Office.)
> new updates for Windows Live One Care (Which never worked properly before
> due to the old infection.)
>
> Plus a ton of other stuff from Windows Update.
>
> So what I'm wondering is this:
> Is this behavior being caused by one of the new updates? Or the fact that
> One Care is finally working? Or is it a sign of an infection?
>
> BTW, I can disable the BIT and it will stay off.
>
> But if I set it to Manual it just flips itself back over to Automatic,
> starts running and stays that way.
>
> Other than this one thing my system is running great now and I'm not
> getting
> any of the lags or hiccups normally associated with an infection.
>
> I looked up the BIT in the MS KB and it said that when BIT is set to
> manual
> it will set itself to automatic if there are any BIT jobs waiting to be
> done
> at boot. But AFAIK, nothing legitimate is creating a BIT boot job because
> when I disable BIT even though it stays off I don't get any messages at
> boot
> telling that any programs had an error.
>
> I appreciate any advice. I'd really rather not have to reformat again.
>
> Thankx.