Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Does Not Work

G

Guest

sHi:

Running Win XP Home SP2 and noticed that there were 8 or 9 new available
updates yesterday (10-11-05). My Automatic Update was hanging, so I manually
downloaded and installed each Update. I went back to the MS Windows Update
site and the available updates are installed. Is there a patch to repair the
BITS service? I used RUN>services.msc and noticed that the BITS is idle. I
tried to RESTART the service but I keep getting an error: "Windows could not
start the Background Intelligent Transfer Service on Local Computer. For more
information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft
service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code
-2147024893."

When I look in the Event Log, I see this error message from the Service
Control Manager:

"The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service terminated with
service-specific error 2147942403."

Thaank you in advance.
 
T

Tom Porterfield

adam said:
sHi:

Running Win XP Home SP2 and noticed that there were 8 or 9 new available
updates yesterday (10-11-05). My Automatic Update was hanging, so I manually
downloaded and installed each Update. I went back to the MS Windows Update
site and the available updates are installed. Is there a patch to repair the
BITS service? I used RUN>services.msc and noticed that the BITS is idle. I
tried to RESTART the service but I keep getting an error: "Windows could not
start the Background Intelligent Transfer Service on Local Computer. For more
information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft
service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code
-2147024893."

When I look in the Event Log, I see this error message from the Service
Control Manager:

"The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service terminated with
service-specific error 2147942403."
Click to expand...

Some things to try.

Verify that you have the directory %ALLUSERPROFILE%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Network on your computer. If not create it. On most
machines the default location for this would be C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network.

Verify that the workstation service is installed and running.

Try reinstalling the BITS update from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=8771DBBA-58B3-4EC3-B373-AA23F23AD0DF.

--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

You receive a "The necessary services are disabled or unavailable"
error message when you connect to the Microsoft Windows Update
Web site or to the Microsoft Update Web site
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883822

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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:

| sHi:
|
| Running Win XP Home SP2 and noticed that there were 8 or 9 new available
| updates yesterday (10-11-05). My Automatic Update was hanging, so I manually
| downloaded and installed each Update. I went back to the MS Windows Update
| site and the available updates are installed. Is there a patch to repair the
| BITS service? I used RUN>services.msc and noticed that the BITS is idle. I
| tried to RESTART the service but I keep getting an error: "Windows could not
| start the Background Intelligent Transfer Service on Local Computer. For more
| information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft
| service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code
| -2147024893."
|
| When I look in the Event Log, I see this error message from the Service
| Control Manager:
|
| "The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service terminated with
| service-specific error 2147942403."
|
| Thaank you in advance.
 
G

Guest

Hi Carey:

Yes, I registered those two files, I received a "successful" message on the
screen for each, but I remain with the same issue.

Thanks.

Adam
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

It appears that you do not have the following directory on your machine:

%ALLUSERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network

Create this directory and then do a 'net starts bits'.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| Hi Carey:
|
| Yes, I registered those two files, I received a "successful" message on the
| screen for each, but I remain with the same issue.
|
| Thanks.
|
| Adam
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

To resolve the DCOM error, create a folder "Network" in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\

so the full path becomes:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| sHi:
|
| Running Win XP Home SP2 and noticed that there were 8 or 9 new available
| updates yesterday (10-11-05). My Automatic Update was hanging, so I manually
| downloaded and installed each Update. I went back to the MS Windows Update
| site and the available updates are installed. Is there a patch to repair the
| BITS service? I used RUN>services.msc and noticed that the BITS is idle. I
| tried to RESTART the service but I keep getting an error: "Windows could not
| start the Background Intelligent Transfer Service on Local Computer. For more
| information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft
| service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code
| -2147024893."
|
| When I look in the Event Log, I see this error message from the Service
| Control Manager:
|
| "The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service terminated with
| service-specific error 2147942403."
|
| Thaank you in advance.
|
 
S

Stan Brown

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:41:33 -0400 in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, Tom Porterfield favored us
with...
Verify that you have the directory %ALLUSERPROFILE%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Network on your computer. If not create it. On most
machines the default location for this would be C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network.
Click to expand...

I think that's %ALLUSERSPROFILE%, with an S. At least it is on my SP2
machine.
 
K

kurttrail

adam said:
sHi:

Running Win XP Home SP2 and noticed that there were 8 or 9 new
available updates yesterday (10-11-05). My Automatic Update was
hanging, so I manually downloaded and installed each Update. I went
back to the MS Windows Update site and the available updates are
installed. Is there a patch to repair the BITS service? I used
RUN>services.msc and noticed that the BITS is idle. I tried to
RESTART the service but I keep getting an error: "Windows could not
start the Background Intelligent Transfer Service on Local Computer.
For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a
non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to
service-specific error code -2147024893."

When I look in the Event Log, I see this error message from the
Service Control Manager:

"The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service terminated with
service-specific error 2147942403."

Thaank you in advance.
Click to expand...

As you can see Windows Update just adds an additional layer of code that
can go wrong. Best way to do updates is download them and install them
yourself.

Learn about Common Sense Computing:

http://microscum.com/comsense/

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
 
G

Guest

Hi Everyone:

Thank you for taking the time to troubleshoot this issue with me. I tried
the various suggestions but nothing worked. I did a GOOGLE search on
"2147942402 0x80070002" (two additional error #'s that I found in a Log file)
and re-registered the following after reading an article on "Windows Updates
fail with error 80246008":

regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
regsvr32 msxml.dll


"And in an attempt to fix possible problems with security providers I
also did the following:"


regsvr32 softpub.dll
regsvr32 wintrust.dll
regsvr32 initpki.dll
regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll

I rebooted, manually restarted the BITS service, and was able to use the MS
Update service once again without any hanging or errors. Yes, manual
downloads are possible, but it is nice when all the bells and whistles work
on the computer.

Thank you again.


Adam
 

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