Re: Background Intelligent Transfer Service refuses to be stopped

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From: Sudheer GN [MSFT] (sudheer_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:05:29 -0800

Hi Pete,
BITS service is used by a number of applications other thatn AutoUpdate and
it can be started if any of those applications try to access BITS service.
Examples of other applications are MSN Messenger, MSN Explorer, MS Money etc

If you want the service not to be started, please change the startup type to
be "Disabled" in the "Control Panel/Admin Tools/Services". This will affect
any application that tries to use BITS service and hence it is not
recommended.

Also, we would like to understand why you dont want BITS service to be
running. Can you please give us some details? 

-- 
Sudheer GN
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> Pete <pete@nospam.net> wrote in message 
> news:<uko8609rsq3kbaggl8ua0r34vqoatd654a@4ax.com>...
>> I stopped the service under Control Panel/Admin Tools/Services and in
>> the properties section I selected "manual," but after a while it
>> starts by itself and the properties is back to "automatic."
>>
>> Anybody else facing this problem? What is the thing that sets BITS to
>> start by itself? How do it I stop it for good? BTW, the autoupdate
>> service has been and is disabled all this while.
>>
>> Pete

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