Ihave been reading all the remarks on how to fix this problem...and don't
understand half of what you are talking about. I have never had problems
downloading updates untill about a month ago. Why now? I have noticed where
it is trying to download, and I get the little sheild icon and it says 0%. I
turned odd firewall today and still 0%
"TaurArian [MVP]" wrote:

> Try manually downloading BITS and installing.
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
> Update for Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1
> (KB842773)
> Note: This download is available to customers running genuine Microsoft Windows
> Reboot if necessary, then see if you can start BITS.
>
>
> "Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E5461D81-33A4-4AF1-9776-32FCBCE2BA86@microsoft.com...
> >I am trying to run windows update and keep getting the above message. When I
> > follow the windows help, they tell me to start BITS. It won't start due to
> > error code -2147024894. Can anyone help me with this?
>
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