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BITS path changed?


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Neena0

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OK, here we go.
I bought a Dell 530 from my cousin. She thought it was damaged beyond repair because she had non-stop pop-ups on her desktop and the internet wasn't working. So she did what she thought was 'cleaning it out' witch ended up being just right clicking delete on everything.
I've put in so much time and effort in restoring this thing. But now I've reached a problem I don't think I can handle anymore.

My automatic updates are disabled. And when I tried to switch it over, I get a message saying windows can't do it basically. After a good long runaround I ended up at my services.msc to see if mt BITS was working. It's not. Again, after a lot of research and a runaround, I think the path is faulty. It says %fystemRoot%\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs. My understanding is, the 'f' should be a 'S'. I've tried to edit it, to no avail.

Just in case anyone is wondering, I have avast!, ccleaner, malwarebytes, and SUPERAntiSpyware installed to try to fight the loads of issuse this thing had.

Thanks so much!
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That's an easy fix. :)

First, backup the registry using ERUNT.

Next, click Start > Run > Type: Regedit > click ok.

Navigate to HKEY_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS

Right click ImagePath > select Modify > change to value to %systemRoot%\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

then exit Regedit and Reboot.
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Thanks for the response, but I've tried all that before. It just resets itself into the 'f' instead of the 's' and nothing changes.
I'll try it once more to see if I did anything wrong. But in the meantime, any other ideas to why it's doing this?
Thanks again!
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Yes, my question is what exactly is causing the change.

Try editing it in Safe Mode then rebooting back into Safe Mode again to see if it changed. This will eliminate any 3rd party software as the root cause.
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Your machine is still infected, post a new topic here... http://www.geekstogo...emoval-f37.html
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OK, after renaming and rebooting, it seems to have kept the change as far as the BITS path goes, but the path for my automatic updates still has the 'f' in the path name. I did a search in regedit for 'fystemroot' and a few things came up, but nothing that had a path to change like I did with the ImagePath.
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