Consider the following scenario:

• You create a volume on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). This volume does not have a drive letter or a mount point. The unique access method is the volume’s GUID.
• You try to download one or more files from a Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) server to this volume. Or, you try to upload one or more files from this volume to a BITS server.

In this scenario, the BITS client cannot download or upload the files.

When updates are being downloaded from Windows Update on a Windows Vista-based computer, you may experience the following symptoms:

• A dialog box appears that indicates that the host process for Windows Services has stopped working.
• After you restart the computer, you receive the following error message in a Windows Update dialog box:
  

  Some Updates were not installed
  Failed: xx updates
  Error(s) Found:
  Code 800706BA

• An event that resembles the following is logged in the Application log:
  

  Event Type: Error
  Event Source: Application Error
  Event Category: None
  Event ID: 1000
  Date: date
  Time: time
  Computer: computer name
  User: N/A
  Description: Faulting application svchost.exe_BITS, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0×4549adc4, faulting module qmgr.dll, version 7.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0×4549bd9f, exception code 0xc0000005

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