RJS Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Hi everybody,First my specs:AMD Athlon XP 1600+384 MB RamWinXP SP22 HD (40 Gb and 60 Gb) with enough diskspace leftµTorrent version 1.2.2 (yesterday 08/12/2005)µTorrent version 1.2.358 beta (today 09/12/2005)I have been using µTorrent for a few months now and I never had any problems. It worked very well.....untill yesterday.I came home from work today and started my usual routine. I started up my pc and started µTorrent. Suddenly my harddisk went crazy and it was constantly busy causing my pc to slow down enormously. I also got messages saying that the diskspace on my C: drive was very low. It was around 80 Mb. I rebooted my pc and ran Scandisk but everything was ok. Usually I have 1 Gb left on my C: drive. That's enough for me because I install/download everything else on my other drives. I have changed the settings in µTorrent so that it downloads everything to my D: drive.I started my internet browser and my pc was still acting normal. I then started µtorrent and after a few minutes my pc went crazy again. I rebooted again and suddenly I saw that the diskspace on my C: drive was only 500 Mb. I deleted the µTorrent directory from my Documents and Setting directory and installed it again but now I used the latest beta version.I started µTorrent and loaded the 3 torrent files I was downloading and again after a few minutes my pc went crazy. I rebooted and now my diskspace on C: is 142 Mb. I'm afraid to start µTorrent again because I don't know what it does with my diskspace.I don't know if this has any relation to it, but yesterday I was downloading some things and my computer freezed. The only solution left for me was to reboot it. Suddenly I saw, while my pc was going through its POST, that the speed of my processor had dropped to 1050 Mhz in stead of the usual 1600+. Somehow my BIOS got messed up. I corrected this and it worked fine again. µTorrent was also working ok.Can somebody please tell me what's going on?? I never had any problems with this program whatsoever.Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Virus? Spyware? :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS Posted December 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I have NOD32 on my system and have already scanned my pc for viruses, but I have none. I also don't have any spyware. I do not use software that contains spyware and I also haven't installed new software lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS Posted December 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 You can close this topic. I found the cause of it. Somehow when I started µTorrent my virusscanner started scanning the files which caused large TMP files in my Windows directory on C: (approx. 2 Gb). Never happened before but everything seems to be working fine again. I'm one happy µTorrent user again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 That's excellent news, RJS. I was scratching my head when I read your first post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted December 10, 2005 Report Share Posted December 10, 2005 I figured it was something like that while reading. I thought its the windows pagefile being absurd again, But it ended up being that. Dont you love programs that do whatever they want without notice? ;] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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