Paul wrote in :

VanguardLH wrote:
lonelydad wrote:

Why can't Microsoft post a notification when they are downloading
updates/upgrades? It would be nice to know why all of a sudden half
my download bandwith disappeared.

Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) will only use spare
bandwidth. If it is using half of your bandwidth means that you were
only using half and the other half would've been unused.

Even more radical - why don't they wait till it is outside of my set
active hours. Then it really wouldn't matter if they take up a
majority of my bandwidth, because I will be in bed sleeping the
sleep of the just.

So, are you reporting that active hours aren't obeyed? Did you
define when are your active hours for that computer?

Active hours is a setting that tells Microsoft that they are not to
remotely force a start of the upgrade process withint that time range. The
assumption is that either the machine is not in use at all, or can be
interrupted without problem outside of those hours. They have nothing to do
with when Microsoft downloads any updates to one's system.