Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Fix

[chris]

I spent hours on this so I hope it helps those that haven't found a
solution elsewhere.

I kept getting the message "Windows could not start the Background
Intelligent Transfer Service on local

computer" .......-2147024891

I tried the fixes about deleting the folder C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Applicati on

Data\Microsoft\ Network\Downloa der

It still wouldn't work.

One of my favorite tools to use is FileMon from sysinernals. services
are run by the program
svchost.exe. I set filemon to only show me the results from this. I
started capturing data when i tried to

start the service again and stopped capturing once I got the message.
(if you have ever used filemon, you know

how much the screen can fill up.) The nice thing with filemon is you
can filter successful events and errors.

I left them all in for this time.

I did capture a few errors. When it was trying to start the service, it
was getting Access Denied. It wasn't

trying to run them from the normal path. Somehow this system got the
All Users App data path changed to our

users drive on the network.

so instead of C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Applicati on
Data\Microsoft\ Network\Downloa der, I was seeing

\\usersvr\joebl ow\application data\microsoft\ network\downloa der
ACESS DENIED

(Btw, We use scriptlogic for logins and I belive this change was due to
a test I had tried to redirect this

folder.)

Since i was logged in as myself, the path I was seeing in error wasn't
due to a system variable based on user.

I knew I should have no trouble finding this in the registry.

I found the path at 2 places,
HKLM\SOFTWARE\M ICROSOFT\WINDOW S\CURRENTVERSIO N\EXPLORER\SHEL L
FOLDERS\COMMON APPDATA

this one should be C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Applicati on Data

The other was in

HKLM\SOFTWARE\M ICROSOFT\WINDOW S\CURRENTVERSIO N\EXPLORER\USER SHELL
FOLDERS\COMMON APPDATA

this one should be %ALLUSERSPROFIL E%\Application Data
Once I made those changes, I rebooted and tried running BITS again, all
is well.