Problems on Exit

[[MD5]Hash]

I'm having a problem I've never had with uTorrent before, I recently just did a fresh install of Windows, and when I run uTorrent, and connect to any peers, whether I'm sending or receiving data, the problem shows up when I exit.

Specifically, I'm not disconnecting from the peers I'm connected to prior to exiting the program. This cripples my internet connection, and the only reason I found out what was going on was when I ran a netstat -a to see if there were any lingering connections I found myself connected to several other computers.

I first tried to restart the program, and exit the program again, but this didn't resolve anything, I then moved on to flushing my IP and renewing it - this seemed to have done the trick.

But this has happened continuously.

Any advice on this one?

[Firon]

Lame software firewalls can prevent connections from every closing, or taking waaay longer than they should.

[[MD5]Hash]

Hmmm...

Well, I did have a firewall installed prior to installing uTorrent, specifically the AVG Internet Security suite, but I removed it shortly after installing uTorrent, as it did a lot of things I didn't like in general.

Lingering garbage on my system from AVG you think?

Edit: At present I'm just sticking with the XP firewall for now, I'm resetting my Winsock to see if that won't resolve any of this.

[Firon]

Could be. Can you post a HijackThis log?

[jewelisheaven]

... Until people try to connect to you and fail you're still a valid peer to them. It will take several minutes to hours for your IP to not be in the cached peerlists of all the peers you were connected to.

[[MD5]Hash]

Not gonna waste your time with a HJT log, it was clean.

The only thing about the peer thing you were mentioning Jewel is that, in all prior installations of uTorrent or any other Torrent client, both on my Linux and Windows box when I need access to my connection for some reason, whether I want to stop the torrents and play a game or watch a video online I can always close out the Torrent client and essentially revitalize my internet connection. I can understand it being connected and slow while I'm running the client, but usually when I shut the client down the connection returns to it's normal speed.

This isn't happening for some reason, it's just slow constantly after exiting uTorrent. It's like it's not even disconnecting the peers, the program just disappears.

Edit: *Resolved*

Okay, well I think I got it resolved. Not entirely sure how, where, or what went wrong, but I think the Winsock reset cleared up whatever was giving uTorrent trouble.

Thanks for your time guys, sorry to have bothered you with this.

[jewelisheaven]

What winsock reset? Do you mean LSPFix?

[GTHK]

This be the only Winsock reset I know of, doing so resets the LSP's back to there default configuration.

Commands in this context:

? - Displays a list of commands.

dump - Displays a configuration script.

help - Displays a list of commands.

reset - Resets the Winsock Catalog to a clean state.

show - Displays information.

[jewelisheaven]

I'm guessing that's a yes, lol.

All i get with netsh winsock show catalog is a list of my running services and protocols installed.

[GTHK]

Only thing is, resetting the catalog is like using a shotgun, LSPFix is like a pistol, more accurate, but you can still shoot the wrong thing .

[[MD5]Hash]

I ran

netsh winsock reset

I suppose I could have used LSPFix or even WinSock Fix, just easier to use the above method, heh.

[jewelisheaven]

(command line makes my blood run cold) Thanks for the new command.

One who doesn't learn something new every day isn't trying hard enough.

[[MD5]Hash]

It's a great way to do a winsock reset on a machine with no internet access if despite all of your attempts you can't get online and you don't have access to external tools.

[GTHK]

I just wish I knew about it earlier in life, stupid Bonjour service..