Utorrent Stops Responding on me and cannot be close

I am running on the latest U torrent client 1.8.1 with windows XP.

For some reason though, each and every time I run u torrent, it works fine but after a while when it starts to download something from any source, it stops responding after a minute or 2 then it cant be close.Even the u torrent symbol on the task bar does not disappear.

Can anyone tell me the reason for this and how to fix it?

Dunno, perhaps try uninstalling Ut and then reinstalling?

I've never had any locking up problems with Utorrent, even when using a creaky old PC.

I suppose all that's left is to go back to basics:

Have you got enough hard disk space?

Have you got enough ram?

Do you defrag regularly (p2p stuff is meant to cause increased fragmentation).

What is task manager saying when Utorrent freezes?

What internet security software do you have installed?

I have Norton Security Scan and yes

I got enough ram,

enough hard disk space,

and no I do not refrag regularly, also when

I try to end its process or end the task, it just does end now message and stays in my processes.

Post HJT & PE logs to see what is injected in uT.

Tutorial: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=29748

This seems to be a common problem. Lots of people complaining of this. I have the same issue on Vista 32bit premium.

Version 1.6 uTorrent works fine, Version 1.7* and 1.8* all freeze up in seconds.

Answer the questions posed above. You have http://utorrent.com/faq.php#Incompatible_software installed.

And stop thread hijacking.

Who's thread hijacking?

You!