Text 23544, 44 rader
Skriven 2006-11-13 13:27:07 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 23528 av Jeff Guerdat (1:275/311)
Ärende: SVCHOST
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:55:58 -0500, "Jeff Guerdat -> Charles
Scaglione" <1:275/311> wrote:

 >> How BITS got set to Automatic, I have no idea.   And, I'm not so sure
 >> that on a faster multi-threading CPU it would make a difference
 >> anyway.  BITS (Background Information Transfer System) probably should
 >> be set to Automatic for most usage I would think, or am I not seeing
 >> something?

More info....   I found out how BITS got set to Automatic:

After resetting it to Manual and things returning to normal, I noticed
it reset itself to Automatic again!  Gremlins?  Bugs?  The recent
election?

This morning when I turned on the machine, AVG Free 7.5 started its
automatic update sequence and downloaded a new virus definition. Yeah,
AVG is the culprit.  When it did its update thing it reset BITS to
Automatic.  AVG runs three services upon startup; one of them is an
"automatic updates check" and that particular service is set to
Automatic.  It probably needs BITS running in order to work and
instead of just starting the service, it additionally sets BITS to
Automatic.

The resolution is to change the AVG automatic updates check service
from Automatic to Manual.  Of course that means I have to manually
check to see if a new definition is available.  I may just dump AVG
and use AVAST instead.  The older version of AVG (7.1) did not do
this.

 JG> The whole idea behind what is started at boot (automatic) and what is
 JG> started when needed (manual) is to have something trigger the startup.
 JG> Since the Automatic Updates is running, it will start BITS when needed
 JG> by making the request.  Apparently having BITS always running is not
 JG> required nor useful, perhaps because of the CPU usage needed.

You would think the folks at Grisoft are aware of this.  I'm going to
try contacting them via email but since I'm using the free version
I'll probably have to seek an answer from their on line forum instead.

Regards.

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