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chaython

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Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

For me the magnet links will not launch utorrent or start a download if already launched... Wondering if anyone had a fix.

ykarim

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

I also have the same issue running Windows 8 Consumer Preview x64, The latest Chrome stable and uTorrent 3.1.2.

Reputationist

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

I am running win 7 x64 and have had mix results with magnet down loads.  I am in the midst of having a problem, I think? Now I have been down loading a file where it seems that all the peers have the same limited response and % completion that I have.  Is this normal?  Is there something I should know about this process to make it run faster?

DreadWingKnight

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

Not the same issue as the one in the thread Reputationist.

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Levi56

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

I use or used to use TPB until magnets. i have the free version of UTorrent just to use magnets but still cannot download do i need the full version?

braveheart

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

And I thought I was the only one, for me 64bit Windows7 magnet links suck! Haven't got one to work yet. The old -style torrent worked fine... why fix it??? Any smart solution geeks out there... help?

ktetch

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

Turn on DHT, they'll work then

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batman87

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

Same problem here. Win8 Chrome(updated), Tried both bittorrent and uTorrent. Turned DHT on. Still no good. Please help!

WLS

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

Are you Win8 users absolutely, positively, unequivocally sure that Win8 supports P2P in the Consumer preview? Are you using Metro?

No P2P in Metro

Firon

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

This isn't a metro app.

batman87

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

Are you Win8 users absolutely, positively, unequivocally sure that Win8 supports P2P in the Consumer preview? Are you using Metro?

No P2P in Metro

It is not about Win8/Metro not supporting P2P. IE opens magnet links just fine. The problem is not with Windows or BitTorrent, but with Chrome.

Stumbled upon to this on the internet:

go to start menu type run hit enter then type in  %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data then enter, go to local state find protocol_handler go down to "magnet": true, and change it to "magnet": false,

Doesn't work either!

spense31

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

Hey i been having the same issue with updated chrome and utorrent in windows 7. I had tried everything listed nothing helped. Then i was going through the preferences and under the General section under the heading windows integration there are three buttons one says associate with magnet files. I just checked all three and now chrome opens the files up with utorrent. This simple fix worked for me. I hope it helps someone else.

batman87

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

Hey i been having the same issue with updated chrome and utorrent in windows 7. I had tried everything listed nothing helped. Then i was going through the preferences and under the General section under the heading windows integration there are three buttons one says associate with magnet files. I just checked all three and now chrome opens the files up with utorrent. This simple fix worked for me. I hope it helps someone else.

are you using Win8? Because in Win8 IE10 does seem to handle magnet links normally. Its just Chrome that doesn't.

woodduck71

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Re: Magnet Links[not working] (win8) (chrome)

FIXED

Hi Guys,
I've had the same issues, but if you use Chrome from the Dev Channel it fixes it.

https://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html … atform=win

Hope this helps