Re: Local Servies screwed up

From: Walter Clayton (w-claytonNO_at_SPmvpsAM.org)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:42:41 -0500

start->run->services.msc[enter]

Locate the BITS service. Double click it to get into properties.

By default it should be set to manual start (look about in the middle of the
panel). Make sure it's set that way. Go to the logon tab. Set the option to
logon as local system account. Apply and OK your way out. 

-- 
Walter Clayton
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
"purplediane" <purplediane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:934865DF-0FD8-479F-A856-9E9E449C2FBC@microsoft.com...
> My husband's computer got some kind of virus/spyware/malware that really
> messed it up. Someone else was "helping" earlier and he changed something 
> in
> the Local Services because it was different from the defaults defined in 
> the
> Help. Unfortunately he didn't keep the notes he made, so I don't know what 
> he
> changed. Everything else seems to be working OK, but the BITS service 
> can't
> run. The error is:
>
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: Service Control Manager
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 7000
> "The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service failed to start due 
> to
> the following error:
> The account specified for this service is different from the account
> specified for other services running in the same process."
>
> The computer:
> Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2
> Compaq Presario Intel Celeron CPU 2.66GHz, 504 MB of RAM
>
> It is connected to the Internet via a Linksys router. Accessing the 
> Internet
> is working OK, except that I can't do things like updating programs like
> Spybot because they need to have BITS working.
>
> There are several services different from the defaults defined in Help.
> Here are the differences:
>
> Name Status  Startup Type Log On As
> BITS Manual Network Service
> (this matches the Help default)
>
> Messenger Started Automatic Local System
> (Help says Local Service is default for Messenger service)
>
> (RPC) Started Automatic Network Service
> (Help says Local System is default for RPC service)
>
> UPnP Host Started Automatic Local Service
> (Help says Local System is default for UPnP host)
>
> Except for a few differences in startup type, everything else matches what
> is given for the defaults.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the defaults should be for these services? Or
> rather, what makes sense for them such that BITS will work OK? I'm 
> hesitant
> to change them all in one fell swoop; if the machine is disabled, I don't
> have enough knowledge to fix it. Another thing that makes me nervous is 
> that
> the guy said he thinks that ehatever he changed was from "Network Service" 
> to
> "Local System", but all the other services match the defaults given in the
> Help.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>

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