It seems to be starting every single time I boot up my edit:new Windows 8.1 computer, hogging disk. I went into services.msc and disabled it but it still somehow re enables itself. This is my own computer so no group policy or whatnot. I know it's BITS because whenever I disable it, the disk usage goes down.
I want it gone permanently. Any thoughts?
I would not recommend trying to "remove" it. BITS is required for the Windows Updates service to run. It would be a bad idea to not install updates, especially the security updates. But it probably would not hurt to disable the service, and then enable it in order to run Windows Updates once a month. Re-enables itself....hmmmmm, maybe you should disable both BITS and the Updates service. Updates may be what is reenabling BITS.
Edit: be aware that there are other things than Updates that use BITS so you may run into additional unforeseen issues down the road. For instance, I think that certain installations (Windows features, maybe MSI installers) may need BITS.
