Background Intelligent Transfer Service

[Black Viper]

Discussion of the Background Intelligent Transfer Service located in Windows Vista SP1.

Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Service Information: http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/Services/Background_Intelligent_Transfer_Service.htm

[Sir Joe]

Hi BV  ...
You talk of manual updates and automatic updates.
I leave the Update settings in "do not alert me", so that there should not be services running all the time, and I can check manually when I want (usually once a week, when I go in town, where I can have a good connection, while here at home in the country I have a prehistoric dial up one..., 24kbps!).
In this case, can I put it in Manual? If I put it in Manual will I be able to stop a download and resume it later?
As you say "Place all four in automatic if you do not wish to update manually" I imagine that if I want to update only manually I can put the four in Manual...
And the other three you talk about in the OP? Can they go in Manual?
(do you like the "OP" abbreviation? )

[Black Viper]

All four can be placed in manual and stopped if you do not desire to automatically update. However, if you use Windows Update, BITS as well as the other three will still need to be either "started" or placed into automatic and rebooted for Windows Update to function.

[Sir Joe]

Is this because of what you have told, that even if in Manual a service is supposed to start if needed, very often it will not?
I have set Cryptographic Services and BITS in Delayed (Event Log did not allowed me), in the hope that at least the startup would have been faster. Is this a good criteria?