Bits service missing in windows xp

For the most part, my previous article has helped me quite a few times over the last 5 years. In this case, one of my computers had gotten a bad virus and in the process of cleaning it, the BITS service just disappeared from the list of services.

At that point, I could register it again with Windows and then go to Services and start it up from there. The first thing you can try to do is recreate the BITS service. You can do this by opening an administrative command prompt and copying and pasting the command below:.

You can open an administrative command prompt by clicking on Start, typing in CMD and then right-clicking on command prompt and choosing Run as Administrator.

To register the BITS service, you have to create a batch file and then run it. First, open Notepad and then paste in the following depending on your operating system. If you are having this BITS problem in Windows 8 or Windows 10, there are quite a few more regsvr32 commands you have to run. Check out this article from Microsoft and follow the directions. Reply Quote. December 23rd, at 2.

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February 28th, at Randy Nolte. March 2nd, at Liked it so much I donated twice Thanx for the fix. March 18th, at March 20th, at Excellent tool! Find Background Intelligent Transfer Service from the list of services on the right.

If BITS is running, right-click and select Restart to restart the service and fix it wherever it may have got stuck for one reason or another. Viruses and malware often target BITS to prevent it from starting normally. If you have good antivirus security software installed, you can use it, otherwise try some of the best antimalware software like Malwarebytes to run the scan, and then restart your computer to see if the BITS issue is gone.

To do this, open Control Panel and click on the View by menu at the upper right side. Click Large Icons.

The BITS troubleshooter will begin scanning, detecting and fixing any issues that may prevent it from starting or working properly.

This will scan and repair any system file corruption. You could also try the check disk command to see if it helps. However, in this case, temporarily disable it and see if BITS starts normally. If so, your antivirus may be the cause. If none of the fixes have worked so far, the problem could be with the operating system, and this can be resolved by downloading the latest Microsoft updates. Download the Windows Update from the Microsoft Update catalog.

Here, you can search for the KB reference for the update and click Download for either 32 or bit version. Double click the. The default startup selection setting should be Normal or Selective startup depending on your computer.