A new BITS job could not be created event.

Hello!

Yesterday while I was connected remotely to my main computer (see 2nd PC specs), I tried to open an application and the graphics driver crashed giving me a black screen. Assuming RustDesk just crashed, I disconnected, waited a few minutes and then tried to connect again only to see a black screen with an small error box that the screensaver could not load because it didn't find a Direct3D device. The afternoon when I returned home, I tried to restart the graphics driver by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+WIN+B but the computer didn't react, so I forced shutdown with the button. When I switched on again, everything was back to normal. I decided to have a look at the system logs to see what happened, and I found some weird entries with red ! title Error and description "A new BITS job could not be created. The current job count for the user *** (60) is equal to or greater than the job limit (60) specified through group policy. To correct the problem, complete or cancel the BITS jobs that haven't made progress by looking at the error, and restart the BITS service. If this error recurs, contact your system administrator and increate the per-user and per-computer Group Policy job limits."

What is that? I also happened today (without restart or anything).

Thanks

BITS = Background Intelligent Transfer Service.

Mainly used by Windows Automatic Updates. You may have some WU issues/corruptions on your system.

You can turn the service off, but this means you won't get automatic updates anymore. This may be a good or bad thing, depending on your preference.

Thank you for your reply. Last time I checked I had installed most of the updates, but probably there are some left and Windows Update didn't manage to do that properly. I will try to manually install all of the remaining ones.

I would start by running windows update troubleshooter settings>system> troubleshoot>other troubleshooters>windows update>RUN.

Reset Windows update using the bat file in this tutorial and check for updates again. Reset Windows Update in Windows 11 Tutorial

spapakons said:

What is that?

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I found this really old MS article that gives an explanation but bits has been around and changed little since then so it should still apply.
See the section marked: Modify the per-computer job limit Group Policy setting
Event ID 16400 — Jobs

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No need, just checked, I have some update to install. I did but cannot currently restart as my computer is busy processing some videos. I will restart at the afternoon and hopefully won't have any other issues.