Re: Error Code: 80246008

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Turning BITS on worked for me. I have not been able to download an update
for the whole of August and just having BITS on made the difference. The
obvious question is "Why did it change?" I have an extensive update history
that suddenly shows consistent failures after the end of July.
--
dogsownluck


"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" wrote:

> Mark wrote:
>
> > I get this Error Code: 80246008 while trying to install SP2 . Nothing in the
> > MS site has helped me so far, I have tried everything that is remotely
> > related to the problem. Any suggestions?
> >
> > BTW, my BITS won't start, any help there too? I think that might be the
> > problem, but I cannot find a fix.
> Hi
>
> From a previous post about this error number:
>
> From: Lokesh Dave [MSFT]
> Subject: Re: Error Installing SP 2
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsupdate
> Date: 2004-08-29 21:10:14 PST
>
> This is probably because your BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer
> Service) service is disabled. To enable BITS, open the services applet
> (run services.msc from start | run) and double click on the Background
> Intelligent Transfer Service. After that set the startup type drop
> down box to be 'Manual'.
>
> Lokesh
>
>
> --
> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
> the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
>
.



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