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[HN7000S] Windows Updates

Yes, I've done it and it works. It's really easy if you have the Group Policy Editor with your OS (W7HP does not) otherwise you have to set the registry manually. I'll post details if interested.

reply to TexasHippie

Thanks guys! Based on your input I did more searching and found that you can determine which version of BITS is being used. It may be important to know so you'll know which keys are used in the registry. I suspect dbirdman is on version 4 and laserfan is on version 3.

BITS version QMgr.dll file version number

BITS 4.0 7.5.xxxx.xxxx
BITS 3.0 7.0.xxxx.xxxx
BITS 2.5 6.7.xxxx.xxxx
BITS 2.0 6.6.xxxx.xxxx
BITS 1.5 6.5.xxxx.xxxx
BITS 1.2 6.2.xxxx.xxxx
BITS 1.0 6.0.xxxx.xxxx

I've found that I have version 2 on a win2k machine, 2.5 on XP, and 4 on win7 home.

Duane

TH the registry entries I posted were for BITS 4.0 (WHS), so if you like the "terms" those should work on your W7Home machine anyway. I'm not sure which version of BITS introduced the bandwidth-limiting feature. But AFAIK the only risk to using this methodology is that if an update download is in progress when 6am rolls around, the allotment goes to zero and I dunno frankly what happens to the incomplete download. But honestly there is no set-of-updates that I know of that wouldn't DL in 4.5 hours anyway (the updates don't start at exactly 100am, but within 30min I believe).

I wish I'd know the magic of BITS a long time ago--would have made Windows life a lot simpler around here knowing Updates would only download during FAP-free time.

Do you know which of the GPE options you chose to produce the registry entries you show above?

The options show like this, with these levels of BITS required:

Limit the maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers. Requires Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003 SP1, or computers with BITS 2.0 installed.

Limit the maximum network bandwidth used for Peercaching. Requires At Least Windows Vista.

Set up a maintenance schedule to limit the maximum network bandwidth used for BITS background transfers. Requires Windows 7 or computers with BITS 3.5 installed.

Set up a work schedule to limit the maximum network bandwidth used for BITS background transfers. Requires Windows 7 or computers with BITS 3.5 installed.

The two reg files I show above are from the 3rd and 4th choices. I'm guessing you used the first choice. If that is the case your reg file is much better, as it would work on many more machines.
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reply to TexasHippie
Microsoft Security Essentials always runs my windows update automatically for what so ever reason. So I made a bat file to auto apply the register to disable windows update. I added the bat to my startup list so everytime I login to windows. I am sure its disable. :)

REGEDIT4
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update]
"AUOptions"=dword:00000001
"AUState"=dword:00000007
 

Regedit /s C:\DisableWindowsUpdate\WindowsUpdate.reg
 

reply to dbirdman

Good stuff. For any who may not be clear about this, BITS is Windows' Background Intelligent Transfer Service and affects ONLY Windows updates (I'm quite certain anyway), i.e. it doesn't affect any other download activities (which is why I still use FreeDownloadManager to schedule big downloads).

Further, in at least Windows 7 there is an Operational Log one can refer to which lists the what/whens of BITS--goto Computer Mgmt and under Event Viewer find Applications and Services Logs>Microsoft>Windows>Bits-Client and in there is a complete listing of download activities for WU.

You CAN get control of MS downloads!

reply to TexasHippie
I just set-up W7 SP1 to download the other night (a GB in size) along with some other stuff and observed that BITS ended the SP1 download the first night with about 200MB remaining to complete, and last night resumed the download and completed the transfer (all within the FAP-free hours of course). While I'd EXPECTED it would work this way, it was nice to see a perfect example of "what happens when the FAP-free period expires" given the interest in this thread.

reply to TexasHippie
Forgive me for being dim. I don't see a folder called BITS within the Windows folder. Am I supposed to create one, then drop the code into it?

No, there is no BITS folder, only registry entries. What we have posted here is the contents of a .reg file. What you need to do with the code is to put it into a blank Notepad, make any time changes appropriate for your location, then save it as a file with a .reg extension. I suggested bits.reg, but the name doesn't matter. After you save it, run it by double-clicking, then you can delete it because it is no longer needed.

The biggest "gotcha" is that Notepad will, by default, add a .txt extension to the file name. If that happens then when you double-click it Notepad will open and that will tell you that you got it wrong. When you save with Notepad, there is a dropdown to change from files of type TXT to "All Files" and that's what you should do.

If you have everything right, you will get a warning from the Registry Editor that you are about to make changes to the Registry. OK it and it will tell you that it successfully made the changes.
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You are missing the top line. It has to be everything between, but not including, the dashed lines.

reply to DaveL
DaveL you probably need to Restart your PC after making this change. And if I were you I'd double-check it was working before trusting that my bandwidth doesn't get blown, e.g. attempt a Windows Update and observe that no files are being downloaded or some such.

Thanks Dbird and Lazer.

Do I go back in and change the windows update choices?
At the present I have it set to notify me so I can download when I want.
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Yes, with this system you would want automatic downloads. Did you get the .reg file to work?