epochone Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Was using bittorrent and things worked fine (if it ain't broke...) but upon changing to utorrent torrents don't start downloading. Instead it goes straight to a Windows Media Player (11.0) screen with the aforementioned error. Also getting an occassional explorer lockup (coinydink?) Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Sounds like the site messed upDoes the problem persist when you save the torrent then load it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Err... does wmp think it owns the .torrent file extension launch parameter? If so that's your first problem, re-associate it with bittorrent mainline, OR uTorrent using (Ctrl-P -> General -> Associate with .torrent files) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epochone Posted December 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 ControlP ? With Vista that brings up Printer settings. Have not yet tried to "save as".***Tried to save first but it just saves the shortcut, not the file, and then it's back to the same problem. No doubt this is torrent 1A stuff but non-obvious solutions to simple problems perplex me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Sorry I was talking about in uTorren't main GUI. Can you load the torrent manually into uT? Or does it say invalid torrent file.If it is invalid, it's possible the browser is mangling the torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epochone Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Thank you for the help. For whatever reason, after multiple attempts at trying to fix, downloading and switching to Firefox cured 1) screen lockup 2) uT port conflict and 3) file association. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 I guess that's a victory :/ It is possible you have a bonus or bogus BHO installed into IE which is also causing the lockup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahmiffed Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Any of the original posters of this thread still around? I'm having this problem too. I did the ctrl-P in uTorrent and got the window, and could see a grayed-out pane which mentioned associating, but ... I'm sort of stuck. In over my head with this technically, not very good at working through things when they're not dead-intuitive and this doesn't seem to be very easy for me to understand. I tried reading the help files and discovered I only understood five words out of ten. Obviously I don't do this kind of stuff much. I can see I need to tell Windows Media to leave the torrent files alone, that they're not music files, and need to tell my computer uTorrent should play them as video or movies, but I'm not seeing how to do it. Can anyone help get me unstuck?If no one answers before Friday afternoon (it's 4 a.m Fri now) don't fash yerself; I'll just get my pet computer wiz (husband)working on it. He'll probably sort it for me. Melis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Er, perhaps this may be a bit late, but you can try clearing the .torrent file association as follows:1. Open Windows Explorer (any folder will do)2. Tools > Folder Options... > File Types > TORRENT3. Delete that entry4. In µTorrent, Prefrences > General > Associate with .torrent files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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