Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. installation of uTorrent shows 7 phantom torrents. It believes they are loaded, and I cannot reload them, as you were able to do, but they are inactive and not shown in the torrent list and I cannot figure out how to remove them or restart them. The sidebar shows they are present, completed, inactive and without labels. The only way I managed to delete them was to uninstall uTorrent and reinstall it. Hardly a solution. I couldn't find anything relevant in the registry, This happened while I was debugging something under VS2010 while downloading torrents, an unrelated program that, incidentally, made no use of sockets. It only happened when I was running the debugger, and it happened twice, though not a third time, so I can't reliably reproduce it. Resetting the list view columns didn't fix it. It seems to not be a mere display issue. Win 7, 64 bit. uTorrent 3.1, build 26650 (32 bit) Intel i7 930, 12 GB RAM net.max_halfopen 100 TCPIP.sys half-open Half-open_limit_fix__4.2.exe claims my OS hasn't limited it, so, presumedly, it'll be the default. Will a HijackThis log help?