Bitsadmin pops up randomly and immediately disappears.

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  1. Posts : 6
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       #1

    Bitsadmin pops up randomly and immediately disappears.


    During the day a cmd window will pop up and immediately disappear without warning, kicking me out of fullscreen applications and being a general annoyance. I suspect something more sinister but Windows Defender, Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware have failed to find the source of the problem and the popups continue to occur.

    Being rather annoyed I managed to capture the event in a recording and discovered it was BITSadmin attempting to do something.
    Bitsadmin pops up randomly and immediately disappears.-80b7fa4c07.png

    I have no experience dealing with BITSadmin but I do know its function so I assume something is trying to phone home, but as previously stated all AV software has not found the cause. Any help would be appreciated.
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  2. Posts : 3,453
       #2

    I'm not familiar with BitsAdmin (I thought that was deprecated?) but these are the commands I use to check what's downloading.

    Troubleshooting BITS with PowerShell - Configuration Manager PFE Kevin - Site Home - TechNet Blogs


    BITS retries interrupted downloads constantly. Check if any (using Get-BitsTransfer -AllUsers) shows an error, you can then remove those that are not system owned.
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  3. Posts : 6
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    Thread Starter
       #3

    Superfly said:
    I'm not familiar with BitsAdmin (I thought that was deprecated?) but these are the commands I use to check what's downloading.

    Troubleshooting BITS with PowerShell - Configuration Manager PFE Kevin - Site Home - TechNet Blogs


    BITS retries interrupted downloads constantly. Check if any (using Get-BitsTransfer -AllUsers) shows an error, you can then remove those that are not system owned.
    And what command do I use to remove user owned tasks?
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  4. Posts : 3,453
       #4

    Remove-BitsTransfer

    NB: if system owned, one cannot do it via PS, in that case you will have to delete certain folders and let Windows rebuild those.

    EDIT: See the example here
    Remove-BitsTransfer
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  5. Posts : 6
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    Thread Starter
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    Superfly said:
    Remove-BitsTransfer

    NB: if system owned, one cannot do it via PS, in that case you will have to delete certain folders and let Windows rebuild those.

    EDIT: See the example here
    Remove-BitsTransfer
    Doing so removed two tasks out of five; two user owned tasks still remain and I will update if the problem continues to occur.
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  6. Posts : 6
    Windows 10 Home
    Thread Starter
       #6

    The popup occured again practically after I finished my last post so I went ahead and deleted the other two user made tasks, only a system task dealing with Skype is now present. Once again I will update if the popup occurs again.
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  7. Posts : 3,453
       #7

    OK, keep us informed ...

    BTW to clear the system owned download see the script code here:

    windows 10 can't install updates, error 0x80240442 - Windows 10 Forums
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  8. Posts : 6
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    Thread Starter
       #8

    After 2 days and seeing no popups i'm confident the problem has been fixed. Thank you.
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  9. Posts : 3,453
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    dadinacactus said:
    After 2 days and seeing no popups i'm confident the problem has been fixed. Thank you.
    Excellent!...You are very welcome. :)
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  10. Posts : 18
    Windows 10
       #10

    Hi. I have exactly the same problem. Unfortunately, the troubleshooting link does not work. Could you help me to solve it?
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