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  1. The "free" version is loaded with advertising, and there is also a paid version. If you think this program doesn't have serious bugs, you haven't used it long. Even if you forget about bugs.. it is still compiled as 32 bit - which limits how much memory it has access to. It needs to join the 21st century and be compiled as 64 bit.
  2. It is now November 20th. Why have their been no posts about Betas since October 17? There used to be posts every DAY!
  3. I don't know if it is a glitch, but the activity in this forum has suddenly dropped off to almost nothing in the past month.
  4. THANKS Darkred! I just installed Windows 11, and it looks very smooth and error free to me so far. Ironically, it was easier to update Windows 10 to Windows 11 than it was to do updates between versions of Windows 10!
  5. How did you manage to get Windows 11? And.. what do you think of it?
  6. I don't see a Tip "O" it goes from "N" to "P" without an "O"
  7. A couple of months ago, I had a nightmare of having all my utorrent.exe files being detected as false positives and deleted. I was then unable to use Utorrent. Even when I tried to download utorrent, it was getting deleted before I could even open it. BUT.. I just downloaded Rafi's latest uTorrent_3.5.5.46096_beta_LAA.exe and that did not get tagged as malware, and it ran fine. At first, I could not see my previous torrents, but they were "hiding". All I had to do was stretch the sidebar on the left. So far, it looks like it is operating smoothly. After a few days, I will update my experience. I still like qbittorrent, but it's nice to have TWO clients available.
  8. I misspoke.. I did not mean "install" I should have said "installations". I realize that the utorrent executable is bundled inside of the installation file and I do my upgrades that way. BUT.. there is a problem.. and I have found the problem.. but I don't know how to fix it. The problem is that although the Utorrent file "utorrentie.exe" and the corresponding Bittorrent file "bittorrentie.exe" are NOT malware, they behave like malware in that they continuously regenerate themselves if deleted or moved. This is detected by anti-malware software.. and every executable or executable which contains the torrentie regeneration code.. gets quarantined / deleted. I did try to do an actual installation, hoping that would rebuild whatever got deleted.. but my system would not allow me to do it. I might be able to do it in safe mode, but even if that does work, most people would not know how to do that. If my memory is accurate.. version 2.2.1 which is about 40 years old (kidding) was the last version that did not have that nasty torrentie crap in it.
  9. I can't get any version of Utorrent to install! EEEEEK!
  10. I have been using Qbittorrent almost exclusively for roughly a year, but I needed to find something in my Utorrent archives today. I was surprised to find out that all of my executable Utorrent files are GONE! I don't remember ever getting a warning that they even contained a virus. Something has just decided to gobble them up and remove them! I'm sure that there is no real virus in Utorrent, many years ago I wrote commercial software which certainly had no virus in it, yet it got tagged as being a virus and put me out of business! Basically, if any software is not microsoft "certified" it gets tagged as being malware. The way to get certified is to submit your source code to Microsoft to analyze. Gee, it's it funny how Microsoft manages to come up with their "own" version of every software made?
  11. I notice that the newest LAA Beta is build 46016 while the newest Stable LAA Stable built is 46036
  12. Thanks for your always rapid and useful responses Rafi! Although I am now using that "other" torrent client almost exclusively, I am still maintaining Utorrent because of your efforts and eternal hope that the problems in Utorrent will eventually be solved. If not for your efforts, I would have given up entirely on Utorrent.
  13. That 3.5.5 46006 with LAA flag will not run on my computer. It comes up as malware. I know it is not malware, but Windows has decided it is.
  14. I actually believed that Utorrent 3.5.5 build 45952 finally fixed the problem of randomly dissociating files - which causes all sorts of problems. I got my database of torrents 100% fixed, which took nearly a week to accomplish. 7800 torrents running just fine. But then.. for no reason.. without a crash.. about 900 of them lost their associations again. I give up! Qbittorrent seems to be the most promising replacement for Utorrent/Bittorrent. They just updated to version 4.3.4.1 and there is a 64 bit version. Rafi and a couple of others have been doing a fantastic job of making Utorrent work as best it can, and helping people overcome problems. The fact that Rafi's repeated pleas for a 64 bit version have been ignored - tells me that Utorrent is never going to solve it's problems. I am keeping utorrent on my computer, but I won't be using it to download new torrents. I will use it to seed old torrents, and probably phase it out completely in about a year. Microsoft Windows operating system and Facebook are also loaded with errors that will probably never be fixed. It's interesting that in TV shows and in movies, computers are always shown working flawlessly, with no delays - yet in reality.. we get shit. Microsoft makes untold billion$ off of it's crappy software, even though you don't buy it directly, every computer product you purchase is forced to pay royalties to Microsoft. Even if your computer doesn't run Windows, computer manufacturers STILL have to pay Microsoft for every motherboard they produce. It's great to have a monopoly! Likewise with Facebook. All facebook cares about is collecting and verifying your name, mobile phone number, location, email addresses and any other information that is none of their business, so that they can sell it to advertisers, marketers, investigators, government agencies, and anybody else that will pay for it. Facebook even does their best to prevent you from using your own database of friends and followers to do anything. Their lists are not alphabetical, not consistent, and unusable. If Qbittorrent has big problems, I will let you know. So far, I am very impressed with Qbittorrent. It is very smooth and fast, and doesn't lock up or crash. The one tiny problem I found is that if you have a torrent that contains multiple files, but you choose to skip some of them.. everything is fine UNLESS you then add those files later. To fix it, you must remove the torrent (making sure you don't remove the files as well) and then add the torrent back and re-check it. This is a very minor problem that I am sure they will fix. Most people never skip files within a torrent - and when they do, they don't add them back - so they would never notice this error.
  15. Do you agree, that the only thing necessary to make this a "native 64-bit version" is to take the same code, and compile it with a 64 bit compiler instead of an ancient 32 bit compiler?
  16. There is a way to fix the digital signature, but that is not necessary. Ideally, Utorrent will eventually have the LAA flag enabled. I don't think X86 processors are even manufactured anymore.. so unless someone is buying a 40 year old computer from Aunt Fannie's garage sale that is covered with spider webs and rat droppings.. nobody should be running a computer that doesn't have the 64 bit version of Windows on it.
  17. If someone is still running x86.. then screw them. ALTHOUGH.. There is some very poorly written software out there that CHECKS to see what version of Windows is running, and if it is NOT x86, then the software will not run! The people who wrote that ancient software never considered that in the future x64 would exist, so even thought any previous software can run on X64.. the software BLOCKS it. // Also.. small software companies are extremely cheap.. and an x64 compiler costs a lot more than an x86 compiler. So they compile it on an x86 compiler. The performance of x64 over x86 isn't that significant anyway.
  18. Regardless of how many torrents you have... how many torrents are you SEEDING? // What is stopping you from using betas? I only had one version that refused to run.. and that was build 48538 // by the way.. I am not sure, but it seems like the torrents that become disassociated begin with letters at the end of the alphabet OR begin with a "[" // There is more to this than a simple fix.. some issues are: why does it happen in the first place? what causes it?; what can be done to prevent it?; how can the disassociated torrents be fixed? ; which builds are "friendly"?. Fixing the problem torrents is a complicated task in itself.
  19. I finally got all my 7845 torrents - with ZERO dissociated torrents/files. It was not easy! I am using build 45918. It did not completely fix itself, however earlier builds didn't allow me to fix some torrents at all. My primary goal now is to verify that this does not happen AGAIN. I think I know what caused it, and how to prevent it... but once they become dissociated, it requires some "tricks" to re-associate them. I am glad I got them working again.. because I did NOT want to migrate over to a different client. I still wish the developers would set the LAA bit without the modification being made for every build.
  20. Well, I did read the helpfile.. but I searched under "/recover" when I should have searched for "encapsulated" I will give that a shot. I'm also working on ways to prevent Utorrent from getting bogged down in the first place. I've had a lot of success in repairing disassociated torrents, but I am still working on preventing MORE disassociated torrents from occurring.
  21. I just tried the /recover option.. which I never knew existed. So far, it confuses me. It just opened up a 2nd instance of Utorrent with the exact same database of 7643 torrents. I expected the /recover instance to be empty of all torrents so I could start like new...
  22. Renaming .exe files doesn't affect anything. I never heard of the "/recover" feature. I will have to take a look at that. I was thinking along the lines of a programs that allow for multiple accounts.. for instance.. a single program where when you start it, you select WHICH account to use: such as a specific employee, or as I suggested a database made up of torrents of just a particular year. // Torrents work because of "generous" people. Far too many people just leech what they want, and then go offline or remove the files. The more leechers there are, the more bogged down the servers get, and files wind up vanishing or taking far too long to complete.
  23. Bad news.. 45918 still has problems.. but I have not given up on it yet. ===== Update.. I think what I will do is rather than migrate all my torrents to another client. I will stop using Utorrent and start using another client for my future torrenting. If that client is buggy... I will migrate the new torrents to Utorrent. One warning about that.. if you choose to use Bittorrent which is published by the same company, it will use the same database - and Bittorrent has substantial problems of it's own. === By the way.. Utorrent should have a feature where you can have MULTIPLE databases.. so that when one gets thousands of torrents, instead of getting bogged down, you can go to another database. Having a separate database for every year would be a good idea. Everybody's database is constantly growing. What is someone supposed to do when their database is too large for them to manage?
  24. I should have been more clear.. it allows you to FIX the problems with the methods I mentioned before (rename bad torrents to something like *.torr) and restart utorrent, then rename the *.torr files back to *.torrent and recheck) it doesn't automatically fix the problems. The previous versions would not even allow me to manually fix the problems. my HOPE is that build 45918 doesn't create MORE disassociated files. I found some more buried in my 7800 torrents, but they are clearing up bit by bit.
  25. don't use the installer. Use Rafi's LAA version that already has utorrent extracted from it.
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