Hey all,
Had me cousin send a text my way asking if I'd look at his computer as windows update wasn't working. It was quite an interesting problem, looked on the internet to see if I could save myself some time but no luck. Anyhu, I did it the boring way and looked into and did the troubleshooting, turned out the background intelligent transfer service was not running because one of the programs that BITS relies on, which was COM+ Event System wasn't running. So, I looked in msconfig (type in run) and went to the services tab and low and behold it was un-ticked, so I ticked that and restarted the computer and everything worked.
I post this as I couldn't find a solution online so if you have this problem double check that the Background Intelligent Transfer Service is running, if it isnt check it is running in the above mentioned service tab, if it is selected and still not running check check that both of these are running:
COM+ Event System
Remote Procedure Call
If either aren't then set them to run in the services tab, then restart your computer.
Now Windows Update should work again
Hope that helps someone
Hig
