Windows 10: How to keep BITS disabled at startup and how to disable Delivery Optimization?

So, first off I am on a satellite internet with a small bandwidth limit each month. My other computer crashed and all I could get is something with Windows 10 which I absolutely did not want due to the bandwidth limits. I have had this running for about the last week and first thing I did was manually trigger the updates to run and got them all downloaded and installed. All programs are updated and there have been no updates listed for days and yet here is my Glasswire program which I use to monitor bandwidth usage showing something is just downloading away in the background still. The problem process is the svchost and opening Task Manager showed to begin with it was Delivery Optimization that was doing the downloading. This was a surprise as I have that feature OFF, so it shouldn't be downloading at all to begin with but there it was... In the last few days it has wasted over 6GB of my data downloading unknown content. I'm sick of dealing with it so I went into Services and stopped the service but it will not allow me to change Startup to Disabled and tells me "Access Denied" when I try to apply the change. I do NOT want this running and wasting my bandwidth. How do I disable it completely so it won't randomly start up on me again and waste all my bandwidth?


A few hours after I stopped the service though, I come back to see a bunch of spikes on my usage and I find out that BITS jumped right in and took over and had over 1GB downloaded by the time I noticed it. I went in and Stopped the service and set Startup type to Manual. An hour later there it was again enabled again and downloading so I stopped it yet again and set it to Disabled. A few hours later and I find some random MS Office program that came with the computer downloading and was up to nearly 200mb when I caught it so I had to uninstall that also to stop it's usage and upon restarting the computer, there was BITS enabled again.


How to I disable BITS and Delivery Optimization so they will not start up with the computer and will not start randomly running? I've seen all the information posted elsewhere about how they download important updates and all that, but I have no updates available on here and it is just wasting my limited bandwidth what could it be downloading that is over 6GB?. Yes I have it set as "metered" but there it is still downloading and wasting it anyway. I just want them disabled. I will trigger any needed updates manually, I do not want these services downloading in the background. We pay a lot of money for what small amount of bandwidth we are able to get and I don't want MS stealing it. If I could use another OS I would but Win 10 was my only option.

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Delivery optimization

You may also try to disable Service Host: Delivery Optimization by following the steps below:

1. Type in Win + R to get the Run box.

2. Enter services.msc then click OK.

3. Then search for Service Host: Delivery Optimization.

4. Right-click then click Properties.

5. Under Startup type, select Disable.

Let us know if you need anything else.

 

Disable Delivery Optimization

I too have noted the same behaviour. But according to this Reddit discussions, Delivery Optimization is not exclusively related to P2P updates, but is also related to other MS update tasks. According to those discussions, Delivery Optimization service will not stay disabled for long and hence the cache folder we are seeing which is somehow related to that service.

I have turned off Delivery Optimization but it is still using my bandwidth?? : Windows10
Delivery Optimization Service still downloading after turning off update sharing? : Windows10

 

Disable Delivery Optimization

Is there a way to permanently disable Delivery Optimization?


HP Pavilion 570-p076na Desktop PC: Windows 10 Home 64-bit.


In Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Advanced options > Delivery Optimization: “Allow downloads from other PCs” is turned Off.


With random frequency, my computer installs a folder called Delivery Optimization that contains a sub-folder called Cache that contains no files.




Delivery Optimization by Philip Mock, on Flickr


When I delete this folder I receive a pop-up that says I need Admin privileges, for which there is an option. I click on this option and the folder goes to my Recycle bin.


Sadly the folder re-installs itself after a random amount of time (usually a day or so).


I have also tried to disable Delivery Optimization in Component Services (local).


The first picture shows how I set the service to “Disable” Delivery Optimization.


In Properties I set Recovery to “Take No Action” and Reset Fail Count to 0 days.




Component Services Local DO Stopped Disabled by Philip Mock, on Flickr


This second picture is what happens after a random period, when the setting changes from “Disable” to “Manual (Trigger Start)” without my intervention.




Component Services Local DO Stopped Manual Trigger Start by Philip Mock, on Flickr


The third picture shows what happens after updating my P.C., which I do manually as I have a Metered Connection – the Service resets to “Running” again.




Component Services Local DO Running Manual Trigger Start by Philip Mock, on Flickr


Is there a way to permanently set the service to “Disable” so that it does not restart itself, which also results in the creation a folder on my Desktop?

Pip