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Service (BITS) Missing from Services Back in the day, I wrote an article about the BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) service not starting and how you can go about fixing that problem. Without this service running in the background, you can't download any Windows updates. It error 2 the system cannot find the file specified causes all kinds of other issues too, but the main problem that affects most people is error 2 the system cannot find the file specified print spooler when they can't download updates. For the most part, my previous article has helped me quite a few times over the last 5 years. Only error 2 the system cannot find the file specified sublime text until a few days ago did I run into a problem with BITS where the article didn't help. In this case, one of my computers had gotten a bad virus and in the process of cleaning it, the BITS service
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just disappeared from the list of services. Any command I tried to run to restart the service or reregister it simply wouldn't work. Eventually I found out that I had to recreate the BITS service altogether! At that point, I could register it again with Windows and then go to Services and start it up from there. In this article, I'll walk you through the steps for creating the BITS service manually and then registering it with Windows. Creating the error 2 the system cannot find the file specified sql server BITS Service The first thing you can try to do is recreate the BITS service. You can do this by opening an administrative command prompt and copying and pasting the command below: sc create BITS type= share start= delayed-auto binPath= "C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs" tag= no DisplayName= "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" You can open an administrative command prompt by clicking on Start, typing in CMD and then right-clicking on command prompt and choosing Run as Administrator. If, for some reason, you can't get the above command to work properly, you can also try the command below, which is just a shortened version of it. If you can, try to copy and paste because you'll notice that after the = sign in several locations, there is a space immediately after. That's not by accident, you need that space otherwise the command won't work. sc create BITS binpath= "c:\windows\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs" start= delayed-auto Once the BITS service is installed, we need to make sure it's registered properly. If not, you can try to start it from the Services panel, but you'll probably get an error like: "Windows could not start the BITS service on the local computer. Error2: The system cannot find the file specified" Register BITS Service To register the BITS service, you have to create a batch file and then run it. Sounds scary and technical, but it's pretty easy. First, open Notepad and then paste in the following depending o
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