No, I did what I usually do, just clicked the "Shut down" button in Windows 7. I agree with you though, I think that this is the most likely reason it happened. Since I have some large torrents running a.t.m, I went back to stable uTorrent 3.2 build 27708 for now. However, later I will experiment with the 3.2.1 beta, trying both options a) exit uTorrent, then "Shut down" Windows and just "Shut down" Windows And how should he answer that? Is there a popup "uTorrent has shutdown successfully" ? Maybe that's a good idea? Well' date=' the opposite, that is.. uTorrent could open a popup (similar to Windows) if it discover that the last session did [b']not shutdown properly. Then we could get a choice between [start uTorrent normally] - default choice, with a 10 sec time-out and [start uTorrent, but block re-checking of torrents (this session only)] :cool: