said by dbirdman: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.
You guessed exactly right dbirdman, and indeed the dialog box shows "Supported on...computers with BITS 2.0". My selected Options are:
Limit background transfer rate (Kbps) to: 0
From 6AM to 1AM
At all other times
Use all available unused bandwidth (checked)
I did just this A.M. select a bunch of updates to download, which stopped-dead at 6AM--I assume they will restart tonight/tomorrow at 100AM again, and in the meantime my BITS log is getting hit with warnings every 10 minutes.
I can live with that--I do wonder, why has BITS not been shouted from rooftops before???