Well, I'm on Windows XP SP3. I have all options under System Tray Enabled, but "Show Balloon Notifications". And also have enabled "Start uTorrent when Windows Starts" and "Start Minimized". For the time being I have made a little batch file to delay uTorrent when Windows starts, for the moment it has worked; but is not the ideal solution. Something like: ping -n 40 localhost > nul start "uTorrent" "<Directory>\uTorrent.exe" /MINIMIZED Another description for the problem could be that it's like it is on Boss Mode, but I don't even use that option . Here is my settings.dat: http://www.anonstorage.net/PStorage/602.settings.dat