Can't even get started..

[windbag]

Apologies if I'm being really dumb with my first post, but my searches found nothing similar.

I'm here as Azureus seems overblown and I want to try uTorrent. But I can't even get started. I download the latest stable version (v1.7.7 jan 25th, 205kB), which downloads utorrent.exe (205kB) OK onto my standard Installation archive area on my G-drive. When I click on it, I get a DOS-box type window.

When I first did this, I was doing 5 other things, and didn't notice what it said before it disapperaed without interaction.

Nothing appeared in Program files, no shortcuts anywhere.

So I retried clicking on utorrent.exe - I get a very quick flash of the Dos-box before it disappears again (if there is any text in there I can't see it), aparently doing nothing.

I'm running Vista SP1, Vista Firewall, AVG antivirus. I try running the downloaded utorrent.exe with Admin priviledges - no difference. Looking at running processes with Priocess Explorer, no utorrent process lurking unseen in the background.

I finally tried creating Program Files\uTorrent\ manually and copy the utorrent.exe into it - same story.

I've tried re-downloading utorrent.exe (v1.7.7) from a couple of mirrors, they all seem to behave the same.

For info, %appdata%\uTorrent folder does not exist...

Can supply a HijackThis log...

Help welcome!

[jewelisheaven]

start->run->cmd /k "Path\to\utorrent.exe"

... you got a broken exe. Download it again, not the same way. And I wouldn't download utorrent.exe from anywhere else if I couldn't get it to work from the main download site... did you have any dialog boxes pop up when you tried to download it.

What AV/security/firewall do you use? ( Size of uT: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34777 )

[windbag]

Yes, that was it, it was a consistently defective downloaded .exe. I downloaded without the download manager and the result worked fine (tho Download Express must be a bit susepct)

Thanks

[Switeck]

windbag,

My guess is your ISP is hostile to BitTorrent traffic, so if results are slow...you may need to try encryption-only settings.

[windbag]

Hi Switeck

Thanks for the response. What makes you think that?

[Ultima]

The fact that Tiscali is known to throttle BitTorrent should be enough reason to make one think that. Try µTorrent 1.8 with encryption enabled and/or forced.