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[HN9000] Something on new computer is draining my bandwidth fast

Re: [HN9000] Something on new computer is draining my bandwidth

reply to sarah81
Look in Task Manager to see if BITS is running.

Background Intelligent Transfer Service

I'm not up on Win 8 but in others turning off Win update only prevented INSTALLATION, not the backround download.

reply to sarah81
I bet ten bucks that it is windows updates downloading all the updates for windows and office.

You might as well bite bullet untill it gets tem all.
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reply to sarah81
BITS is the updater.

Well, I noticed it wasn't doing the same thing this afternoon - it seemed to be pretty quiet, wasn't eating up 40MB in 20 minutes like it did this morning. But I just checked and that BITS thing was in fact running, so I went ahead and disabled it. We'll see if that helps upon start-up tomorrow. Thanks so much for the tip!

But I wonder, will I have to disable it each and every day? If so, I guess it's a small price to pay for not having a huge chunk of my bandwidth for all intents and purposes stolen.

reply to sarah81
When a new PC is pre-loaded with a software package, every one likely defaults to auto-updownload-install. So besides Windows, you'll also have to go through all the 3rd party software and set each of them to manual download as well.

I didn't realize that's what BITS did actually. But it will in fact run every time you restart Windows, unless/until you physically turn the service off

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reply to sarah81
Assuming that Windows 8 is similar to Windows 7, the only way to permanently turn off BITS is to go to services (by typing "services" in the start menu), select Background Intelligent Transfer Service, and disable it. But I'm not sure that you really want to disable it. With any new computer, there are going to be a good number of updates since the date when your computer's operating system was made and installed in your computer. You really don't want to ignore all those updates, and, once they have had a chance to be downloaded and installed, further updates should be much more manageable with regard to the amount of bandwidth that they are using.

I would suggest that your best course of action is to open Windows Update, and, under settings, select the option that says that it will notify you of updates and let you decide which to install and when to install them. Then, you can choose to install them when you know you will have the necessary bandwidth available.

reply to sarah81
We figured out that there are registry changes that can be made such that BITS will only allow downloads during specific hours. See »[HN7000S] Windows Updates
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Delayed start has no measurable effect on the problem at hand. Whether the service starts at boot, or starts 2 minutes later (the rough delay of "delayed start") is not significant.

That was just a followup graphic to help turning the BITS service off so it wouldn't come back with each Windows restart.

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reply to sarah81
According to this Wikipedia page there are a number on non-Microsoft applications requiring BITS:

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background···_Service

The best bet I would think is to leave the computer off until the "Free Time" to avoid FAP. OP indicates a HN9000.

I agree Don, it sounded however that the OP was concerned with FAP and "mysterious usage".
If the OP were to keep the computer off until the free time and then update that would get Him/Her past past FAP.

The poster didn't seem to have usage concerns with the old computer, so once fully updated the new one should be in the same usage pattern.

As for messing with the registry...that could get a little dicy depending on the experience level of the OP.

Have you looked at the post about the registry? Using a .reg file to make the change is extremely low risk, as such things go. Certainly no more chancy than editing service entries.

reply to sarah81
Plus, my Win7/Pro gives me the option of simply being notified of available Microsoft updates. Windows notifies me of available updates, and lists them by type of update, priority, and size. From that list I can individually select only those that I want downloaded immediately. I can then go back for the others as bandwidth permits.

My BITS service by the way, operates operates in the "Automatic-delayed start" mode. Since I've never been to that page before, it's either (a) default or (b) a reflection of the Microsoft Update setting I described above.

That said, I have a 64 bit Win8 installation disc for a couple weeks now. Just haven't had the time to set up a dual boot configuration.

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Now I have discovered a problem with dual booting Windows 7 and Windows
8. One of the features in Windows 8 is a hybrid shutdown mode that
really helps reduce start-up speed. Apparently Windows 7 does not like
that at all. I discover the problem when I shutdown Windows 8 and then
booted Windows 7.

My test computer has 4 hard drives. While booting Windows 7 I received
messages about corrupted files on each of the other 3 drives. Chkdsk
ran repeatedly and when Windows 7 finally finished booting, all the
other drives were blank.

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