How can I disable Background intelligent transfer service (Permanently)?

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I've tried to disable Background Intelligent Transfer service using two methods:

RegEdit and services.msc

After restarting the computer, the service runs at start-up again. How can I disable it permanently? Is there anyway to delete or get rid of this service? It consumes my internet and I would not like to download any Windows updates. I have Windows 10.

Thank you very much,

Doing this will kill Windows update, which means you could be left vulnerable in the event that security problems with various products are discovered. — Mokubai, May 13 '16 at 08:06
"After restarting the computer, the service runs at start-up again." It should not do this if truly disabled. Also disable Windows Updates in Services, see if this helps internet usage. — Moab, May 13 '16 at 19:25
Does this answer your question? Permanantly delete BITS annd Windows update services in windows 10 — Henke - Нава́льный П с м, Feb 15 '21 at 10:04

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 10 '21 at 13:42

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In order to disable Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), you have to follow these steps:

Press Win + R (or Start => Run)
Type msconfig and press Enter
Select Services tab
Locate Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Remove the tick next to it.
Press Apply
Reboot the system.

There might be some overall performance improvement, however, in my personal case it made large file transfer slower despite the fact that it was Core i7 3rd gen.

edited Jan 10 '21 at 13:42

Mokubai

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answered May 13 '16 at 08:05

Julie Pelletier

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Thank you very much for your answer. What do you mean by "remove the check mark" ? I did not found "Background Intelligent Transfer" , Do you mean all the check marks? What I found is "Background tasks infrastructure service" and "Windows update". Is one of them related to me issue? – user2824371 May 13 '16 at 10:16
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do not accept the wrong answers pls. – Phyo Arkar Lwin Apr 28 '17 at 16:57
It works for me. What are the drawbacks of disabling this service? Will some of the system functionalities be affected? – vineeshvs Jun 14 '20 at 02:55
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@vineeshvs, https://superuser.com/questions/1072771. – Henke - Нава́льный П с м Nov 21 '20 at 16:02
This works for me. and increases my download speed Thank you – Mohamed Raza Jul 26 '21 at 07:24

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '17 at 06:44

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First open services
open properties of background intelligent transfer service
click stop and in startup type choose disabled
on the recovery tab choose take no action for first and second failure
click ok and the service will never starts again.

answered Jun 01 '17 at 06:44

naveen

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Generally that's how it works. But, somehow in my asus laptop (personal), it's running on next start & it's not in disabled state also. Strange!! – P Satish Patro Apr 17 '21 at 05:50

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 12 '20 at 11:12

None of the answers worked permanently as BITS gets enabled after few days. But good news is, we can set bandwidth consumption of BITS to 0kbps and restrict it from eating up internet speed.

This is the only trick I found to control BITS and it worked perfectly for me.
So here you go,

Open start menu(or press windows key), type gpedit.msc(Edit group Policy) and open it.
Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
Edit(double click) Limit the maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers.
Now select Enable and change Limit background transfer rate(kbps) to to 0 or some lower value like 2. Remember you need to set this at 2 places on same screen, one for scheduled time and one for all other times.

That's it. BITS will now use only the bandwidth you have specified.

Note: This might not work in windows Home edition. If works for someone please comment/edit answer.

gpedit.msc is a good option, however, Group Policy isn't available by default on Windows 10 Home editions. There are some workarounds, which allows you to enable Group Policy, but it will be wiped out on the next windows update (such as 'Fall Creators update') — Malakai, Jan 08 '21 at 20:38

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 16 '17 at 11:48

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None of the above tips worked for me, stopping the BITS service, setting mode to disabled, setting recovery to no action etc. BITS keeps turning itself back on and eating up my data. I finally found a way to stop the service , here goes :

Create a new user in your windows with some password
Go to services.msc -> BITS
Right click properties and go to the logon tab, select local account and provide the new user name with a wrong password
Go to general tab and in Start up type select disable

BITS is stopped for ever.

edited Nov 16 '17 at 11:48

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answered Nov 16 '17 at 10:47

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Won't last forever. These settings automatically get reset after few days and BITS is back in action. – as-if-i-code Oct 11 '20 at 13:51

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited May 13 '16 at 13:18

BITS is one of the crucial services to download Windows Updates. Disabling this service will interrupt Windows Updates installation which is not recommended. Here, there is no permanent way to disable Background Intelligence Transfer Service. However, I would suggest to you follow the steps below and check if it reduces CPU utilization.

Method 1: Install all the latest Windows Updates.

Method 2: Try Clean Boot Special Note: After troubleshooting, refer to this section How to reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting

I hope this helps definitely

For more details -http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/how-do-i-permanantly-disable-bits-background/61ed6216-15d2-4b2b-ae82-a20e61d57d3b?auth=1

Agree, but it could be nice if windows update would not take 100% of bandwidth, making it impossible for other software to do some networking at all. — jokoon, Nov 22 '16 at 12:34

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 25 '16 at 08:08

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Try disable windows update service in services and if not work to ensure disable windows update services in msconfig on services tab. This solved my issue.

answered May 25 '16 at 08:08

msoa

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This does not work. After 8 months of being disabled, windows managed to re enable the service. I have tried disabling BITS, WUASERV and some update orchestrator service too. I now have ownership of the windows update software repository and have disabled all reading and writing to the directories. I have also done this to the Windows10Upgrade directory so it cant update. What I want to know is how, after 8 months, it managed to re enable without ANY interaction. My day job is IT Technician – Adsy2010 Dec 18 '17 at 21:42

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