On Feb 22, 1:50*pm, Mindbank <Mindb...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I recently ran into this problem on an XP machine that was just cleaned of
> viruses. The solution was searching the registry for the wordBITS. I found
> two places in which the word %SystemRoot% had been changed to %fystemRoot%.
> This was probably changes by some malware to preventBITSfrom starting.
> Changing it back fixed the issue.
>
>
>
> "In Excelsius Dago" wrote:
> > Theerrorcode that I get for updates is 0x80246008. On looking for
> > how to approach this problem, I went to services.msg and opened up the
> > Background Intelligent transfer services dialog. System status showed
> > "stopped." I tried to start, and was told, "Could not start the
> > Background Intelligent TransferServiceserviceon Local Computer.
> >Error2: The system cannot find thefilespecified." The path was C:
> > \WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs. Is this correct, and if so,
> > whatfileneeds to be located and how to I get it, I wonder.- Hide quotedtext -
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PERFECT!!! I too had this problem, and searching the registry for
"fsystemRoot" and replacing it with "SystemRoot" had me back up and
running in a matter of seconds... no reboot required. Thanks!!!