Windows 10: 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.




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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maybe virus issues,also microsoft edge dissappeared,and unable to reset my pc.Help.

oh my god stressing here.i am hoping some kind being can guide me through as of the last few days I was having issues with two lap tops one I think has a virus as a pop up keeps showing BITSADMIN version 3.0 bitsadmin is depreciated etc and shows up every
hour,now am having issues with other lap top Microsoft edge has disappeared and i am unable to reset it or restore etc can anyone please help with all my problems???

 

Settings

I cannot run "Settings". The box pops up then disappears immediately. Can't even adjust my wallpaper... Any help?

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

After 2 days and seeing no popups i'm confident the problem has been fixed. Thank you.

 

Excellent!...You are very welcome. *Smile

 

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

 

Buddy, that is not troubleshooting ...you need to provide your own info...

What we are doing is clearing the BITS queue - that's all.

The 'to and fro' is because some downloads have have Trusted Installer permissions which is higher than Admin and need off-line manipulation. Start your own thread and we can handle that specifically.