spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 jroc: The only copy of utorrent.exe on my system is in C:\Program Files\utorrent\utorrent.exeIt exists nowhere else on any of my drives; therefore I'm 100% certain it matches the current instance of utorrent.exe that is running. boo: tried it erasing it just now, didn't help I'm pretty sure it's some association errors but everything seems to be right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 When the multiple instance happens, are there 2 different versions? Can someone test this for us? or try letting the latest exe be named beta whatever .exe. see if that helps.Im sorry. if the latest version is utorrent.exe rename the exe to something different than utorrent.exe. Then when running the exe hopefully ur firewall will ask for permission for the new .exe. If not, change the .exe in the file types options u mentioned earlier. The problems occur when we have more than one version named "utorrent.exe" Thats one reason I named all my versions to their actual version number.Also check ur firewall settings for the allowed programs. Look for all utorrent.exe's that u allowed and either remove em from the firewall or try to find if there is another version somewhere on ur pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 utorrent 1.3 says its version right in the button on the start bar, and it's definitely launching two copies of the same executable as i've searched my system and there's only one copy of utorrent.exe (across both my harddrives. I searched with a wildcard (utorrent*.exe) to be sure) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Im running out of suggestions here did u remove the other utorrents from the recycle bin? Do u have a program like norton Go Back or something similar on ur pc?Or some kinda file recovery app on ur pc?I give up after this. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 No, i have none of that silly stuff installed I don't even use Windows system restore points.I think this is some sort of DDE issue. jroc since you don't have an issue, can you please check the Advanced button on your torrent file associations and edit the "open" action? make sure it matches this?[Application used to perform action:]"C:\Program Files\utorrent\utorrent.exe" "%1" (wherever your utorrent is)the Use DDE checkbox is CHECKED.[DDE Message:](empty)[Application:]utorrent[DDE Application Not Running:](empty)[Topic:]System(I tried unchecking the "Use DDE" checkbox, but i still have the same problems) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Ok I see I shoulda did some looking of my own. I did an auto upgrade to the latest version earlier today. My filetypes options says utorrent-1.2.3-beta-unicode-build-356. Everything else is the same. Thats the latest version I used when I auto-upgraded. But I did download 1.3 separately b4 I auto-upgraded. Then I pointed my shortcut to 1.3 And I open uT from the shortcut only. There is definitely something funny going on. Cuz I should have 2 instances opening too. I need to stop uT and re open it or something. Will report back with news soon.UPDATE: I cant reproduce the multiple instances. Even after restarting uT and my browser. Thats wild cuz the only thing pointing to the current version is my shortcut. Everything in file types points to a beta. U sure u clicking a exe and not a shortcut? Im at a total loss now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nozomi Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 For sure that this is not related with .torrent association. I use Windows Explorer enter the utorrent directory which is ""C:\Program Files\uTorrent\" and double click utorrent.exe, every double click bring up one instance of µTorrent in the task bar. I don't use autoupdate and alway download utorrent.exe manually and replace the old .exe, problem only came up with the beta version starting support of unicode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 I downgraded to 1.2 (erased utorrent.exe, erased file associations, erased %appdata%\utorrent folder, then erased every instance of utorrent i found in my registry) and i didn't have any problems with multiple instances. i then let it upgrade itself to 1.3 and the multiple instance problem started happening again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grauw Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 How does µTorrent detect that an instance is already running? Is it based on the filename, or on the subject bar?Could it be that the detection is done with an Unicode string compare, but that the input of the test isn't using Unicode? In that case, the problem could depend on the user's system codepage: on normal English Windows it might work, but if the encoding is different, e.g. on a Russian or Japanese Windows, it might not.All the people who are seeing this problem: what is the language of your Windows installation?Mine is Dutch, and the system codepage is 1252, and everything works fine.~Grauwp.s. My installation path is and has always been C:\Program Files\µTorrent\utorrent.exe (note the µ, which is not part of standard ANSI, so the code would be different in UTF-8 and Latin-1). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nozomi Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 All the people who are seeing this problem: what is the language of your Windows installation?English Windows XP SP2Under Regional & Languages OptionsRegional Options Tab: Standards and formats = English (United States)Location = Hong Kong S.A.RAdvanced Tab:Select a lanage to match the language version of the non-Unicoe programs you want to use = Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R)I've many codepages checked in "codepage conversion tables"My installation path is also C:\Program Files\µTorrent\utorrent.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 English Windows XP SP2Under Regional & Languages OptionsRegional Options Tab:Standards and formats = English (United States)Location = United StatesAdvanced Tab:Language version of the non-Unicode programs you want to use = JapaneseI also have some 25+ codepages installed under "codepage conversion tables"My utorrent resides in C:\Program Files\utorrent\utorrent.exe as well.I have Japanese and English inputs enabled. I'll change my non-unicode setting to English and see how this works. Having it set to japanese turns all my backslashes to yen symbols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nozomi Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 spriseris, how about your program install path, do you have the special "µ" character? For those who have problems do you have the "µ" in your path, "µ" not "u"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverie Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 I'm using Traditional Chinese Windows XP Corp Pro SP2 Utorrent is A:\Utorrent.exe yeah.. it's a floppy?Tried it on my other comp which never had anything BT on it and still multiple instance problem It keeps opening a new instance... (clicking Run/Open in IE)(double clicking torrent file on my desktop) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 oh, no i just use "C:\Program Files\utorrent" for my path instead of µtorrent. One interesting item is: When I have my non-unicode programs set to use japanese, I sometimes see µtorrent referred to as オtorrent in dialogue boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nozomi Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 When I have my non-unicode programs set to use japanese, I sometimes see µtorrent referred to as オtorrent in dialogue boxes.I found this problem came up then µTorruent not having unicode support, it is gone with the latest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 The dialog box i just pasted was a screenshot from just 5 minutes ago, in version 1.3. When I changed my non-unicode program language settings from Japanese to English (which required a reboot), it fixed the problem. New torrents launched in the same window. Then I changed back from English to Japanese (rebooted again) and the problem shows again.I repeat: PROBLEM FIXED if I set my Non-unicode program language to use English. If I set it to Japanese, opening a new torrent launches a new instance of utorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nozomi Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 You'er right... Advanced Tab:Select a lanage to match the language version of the non-Unicoe programs you want to use changed from Chinese back to English fixed the multiple instance problem.can more people confirm this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 nozomi do your backslashes look like backslashes? when I use japanese as my non-unicode program language, my backslashes change to yen marks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 the yen sign thing is a non-ut problem, you'll see that on any dialog... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 what are you talking about when you say you choose to run a progam in japanese or run it in english,do you make an shortcut and in it you add some info???Anyway, this is what I have=Regional Options Tab:Standards and formats = SwedishLocation = SwedenIn Language tab, I have the two checkboxes there checked,which result all asian and some middle east language in Advanced is checked.And I dont have the yen problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spriseris Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 i know, i see it anywhere in windows when i use Japanese for non-unicode program language -- a command prompt, an address bar, whatever. I don't know if this bit of information has anything to do with the issue - just trying to provide info for it to get fixed. i hypothesize that the newer utorrent needs a little work on its unicode implementation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nozomi Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 nozomi do your backslashes look like backslashes? when I use japanese as my non-unicode program language, my backslashes change to yen marksYes, backslash is the same under Chinese or English, only Japanese setting change the backslash to yen mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Some folks did mention the unicode versions was when the problem started happening. Well Im glad to see some of yall found the problem and fixed it. Now I can go to bed..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nozomi Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Anyway, this is what I have=Regional Options Tab:Standards and formats = SwedishLocation = SwedenIn Language tab, I have the two checkboxes there checked,which result all asian and some middle east language in Advanced is checked.What about the "Advanced Tab", Select a language to match the language version of the non-Unicoe programs you want to use?Please also note that Chinese and Japanese are internally use double bytes to represent a single character unlike ANSI, I don't know about Swedish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 So the problem seems to be a little issue with Unicode, then.I'll point ludde to this thread so he can see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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