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An issue was discovered last month with the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) that caused the Windows Services host process to stop working if a Windows Update package that was downloaded was corrupted. The problem and methods to get out of the situation are discussed in the following article:
940520 The host process for Windows Services stops working after you download Microsoft updates on a computer that is running Windows Vistahttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;940520
Now, an update for BITS will prevent the above problem from happening. The update is being pushed out via Microsoft Update as an Important update. It was applied to my Vista systems overnight last night and is described here:
939159 An update to prevent a Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) crash on a Windows Vista-based computerhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;939159
In case you are hungry for more information regarding BITS and Update Services, check out our Update Services Newsgroups:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/winsrvr/featurepacks/wsus/community/newsgroups/default.mspx
- Michael Platts
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