In continuing my trend of "tech fix posts", I thought I'd share this little problem I had with Windows Updates lately.  I had been reading about this worm reeking havoc on Windows computers lately and I thought "crap, when was the last time mine was updated?"

Luckily, it turns out my computer had been updated since October, so the worm wouldn't affect me, but I knew I'd been having a problem with updates recently.  When I went to Windows Update in Start>Programs, it would say something along the lines of "Windows Update could not start because one or more of the following services are not running: Event Log, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), Automatic Updates".

I kept looking at the BITS service and seeing that it was Started though ... I'm thinking "wtf? what else could it be?"

As it turns out, in the Log On tab, the service was set to log on as a "local system account".  I changed it to my account (which is a local and domain administrator) and BAM, instantly the Windows Updates started working again.

I suspect this all had something to do with recently joining the workstation to a domain, but what exactly caused it I still don't know.  So, for now, the fix is:  "Change the Log On account to something with administrative privileges on this computer" ... in my case, it was my account.



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