Background Intelligent Transfer Service - BITS

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Below is a description of this Windows Vista service:

Transfers files in the background using idle network bandwidth. If the service is disabled, then any applications that depend on BITS, such as Windows Update or MSN Explorer, will be unable to automatically download programs and other information.

# Default Settings:

Default setting in Windows Vista Home Basic is: Automatic
Default setting in Windows Vista Home Premium is: Automatic
Default setting in Windows Vista Business is: Automatic
Default setting in Windows Vista Ultimate is: Automatic

# This Windows service logs on as:

Local System

# The default path for this Windows service is:

%systemroot%\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

# This Windows service depends on the following system components:

COM+ Event System > Remote Procedure Call (RPC) > DCOM Server Process Launcher

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) > DCOM Server Process Launcher

# The following services have a dependency on this service:

None.

Marc Says:

BITS is a background file transfer mechanism and queue manager. Requests to the BITS service are submitted and the files are transferred uses idle network bandwidth so that other network related activities, such as browsing, are not affected.

If the service is stopped Automatic Updates will be unable to automatically download programs and other information until the BITS service has started!!!