Posted March 17, 201014 yr Thanks, J! The security key was there and was correct, but the ServiceDll key was missing. best, Creating it did the trick. roy "J. Logan" wrote: > I had the same worm that broke your BITS. The path that your service lists is > correct. The problem is that the worm deleted the "Parameters" and "Security" > keys for the BITS service from the registry. To resolve this do the following > (Use registry editor at your own risk): > > 1) Click Start-->Run and type regedit.exe and click ok. > 2) Navigate to HKLM\Services\CCS\BITS > 3) Right click on BITS and choose New-->Key and name it Parameters > 4) Left click the new parameters key. In the right pane right click and > choose New-->Expandable String Value and name it ServiceDll > 5) Double click the ServiceDll key that you created and in the value data > box paste this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\qmgr.dll > 6) Do the same procedure to create a new key called Security below BITS. > Create a new Binary value in the security key and name it Security. Scroll > down in the registry editor until you see a service called: wuauserv. Left > click its security key. Double click the binary value on the right called > security. highlight all of it (ALL OF IT!) and go back to the binary value > that you created under BITS\Security. > 7) Double click yours and paste in the data. > 8) Start the service and Voila! Windows Update should work again. > > I hope this helps someone! > > "In Excelsius Dago" wrote: > > > The error code that I get for updates is 0x80246008. On looking for > > how to approach this problem, I went to services.msg and opened up the > > Background Intelligent transfer services dialog. System status showed > > "stopped." I tried to start, and was told, "Could not start the > > Background Intelligent Transfer Service service on Local Computer. > > Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified." The path was C: > > \WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs. Is this correct, and if so, > > what file needs to be located and how to I get it, I wonder. > >
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