was there ever a resolution to this problem?
I have the same issue - no BITS service listed, and
the following response from bitsadmin
C:\Users\Chris>bitsadmin /util /version /verbose
BITSADMIN version 3.0 [ 7.0.6001 ]
BITS administration utility.
(C) Copyright 2000-2006 Microsoft Corp.
Version of BITS installed on the system: 3.0
File version for BITS binaries:
file path version langId
C:\Windows\system32\qmgr.dll 7.0.6001.18000 1033
C:\Windows\system32\qmgrprxy.dll 7.0.6000.16386 1033
C:\Windows\system32\bitsprx2.dll 7.0.6000.16386 1033
C:\Windows\system32\bitsprx3.dll 7.0.6000.16386 1033
C:\Windows\system32\bitsprx4.dll 7.0.6000.16386 1033
C:\Windows\system32\bitsprx5.dll 7.0.6000.16386 1033
C:\Windows\system32\bitsigd.dll 7.0.6001.18000 1033
C:\Windows\system32\bitsperf.dll 7.0.6000.16386 1033
Is BITS secondary service DLL active: No
BITS secondary service DLL path: N/A
Pending file operations: None
Unable to connect to BITS - 0x80070424
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