B.I.T.S. refuses to start

[runningfool]

seems i cant seem to escape from these weird PC problems...

so a friend of mine and i were almost done reinstalling windows xp on his laptop. the only things left to do were to get a few drivers so his sound/ethernet/SD card reader would work. we couldnt find the drivers on the manufacturer's website (only because he INSISTED i install 64-bit xp). so i tried MS update. sure enough the drivers were there, but the downloads never started. the Background Intelligent Transfer Service was set to manual, but would not start.

this is a clean install of windows we're working with, and theres no reason BITS shouldnt be able to start...all dependencies are running, all necessary dll's registered. so would anyone know how i can forcibly start BITS (even though it has refused so far), or even better, suggest a site that might have the elusive 64-bit xp drivers we are looking for?

[NIM]

Try to erase this directory:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\downloader

Let me know if it works..

[runningfool]

unfortunately the "downloader" folder wasnt even there...

[NIM]

Try to run this in your command prompt..

regsvr32 oleaut32.dll

regsvr32 jscript.dll

regsvr32 vbscript.dll

regsvr32 msxml.dll

regsvr32 softpub.dll

regsvr32 wintrust.dll

regsvr32 initpki.dll

regsvr32 cryptdlg.dll

BTW, are you using Symantec Anti-Virus?

Also, please check the event log and tell me what the system is complaining about - not being able to start BITS, so I can investigate....

[runningfool]

...found an old article buried on keznews:

1. Click Start, click Run, type Regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qmgr.dll, and then click OK.

2. Click Start, click Run, type regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qmgrprxy.dll, and then click OK.

3. Click Start, click Run, type services.msc, and then click OK.

4. Double-click Background Intelligent Transfer Service.

5. In the General tab, click Start.

btw, symantec wasnt installed, and the only thing on event log was a few errors concerning DCOM...no big deal. anyway, thanks for your help again N1K

Edited January 30, 2008 by runningfool

[Tarun]

Have you tried running Dial-a-fix? It helps repair Windows Updates issues which includes BITS.

You can also try,

rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 C:\WINDOWS\inf\qmgr.inf

There is also the option of updating your BITS to 2.5 (it will be included in Service Pack 3).

[runningfool]

we got it working, by re-registering qmgr.dll and qmgrprxy.dll. not a big deal, since he wanted windows updates completely shut off after everything worked again.

and Tarun, do you know of any other windows components that i could update? having 64-bit xp means i cant update to SP3...and i usually dont see or look for any hotfixes other than the ones released on patch tuesday...

[Tarun]

Sorry, none that I know of.