Limit the age of files in the BITS Peercache

This policy setting limits the maximum age of files in the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Peercache. In order to make the most efficient use of disk space, by default BITS removes any files in the Peercache that have not been accessed in the past 90 days.

If you enable this policy setting, you can specify in days the maximum age of files in the cache. You can enter a value between 1 and 120 days.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, files that have not been accessed for the past 90 days will be removed from the Peercache.

Note: This setting has no effect if the "Allow BITS Peercaching" setting is disabled or not configured.

Supported on: At least Windows Vista

Number of days:

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS
Value NameMaxContentAge
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Default Value90
Min Value1
Max Value120

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