After upgrading some windows 2000 SP3 machines to Windows 2000 SP4, something
unexpected happened.

When trying to manage the computer and install sms we realised that now the
BITS service is stuck in "stopping" state. It can neither be started nor
stopped because of it being stuck in this transitional state.

What can we do to solve this problem?

Thank you for your help in advance,
Sincerely,

Al
SMS Administrator

Multi-posted.

John

Al wrote:

> After upgrading some windows 2000 SP3 machines to Windows 2000 SP4, something
> unexpected happened.
>
> When trying to manage the computer and install sms we realised that now the
> BITS service is stuck in "stopping" state. It can neither be started nor
> stopped because of it being stuck in this transitional state.
>
> What can we do to solve this problem?
>
> Thank you for your help in advance,
> Sincerely,
>
> Al
> SMS Administrator