uTorrent wants to re-install

[BZFlagLEGOManiac]

The drove me nuts for several hours yesterday. It's been "resolved" now but I thought I'd post it in case anyone else has a similar problem. It has not happened since.

I went to start uTorrent 1.8 and the installer came up.

Now, it's possible that I inadvertantly clicked on the installer itself, in which case the results should be expected. Normally I start uTorrent from the quick launch bar, so I don't really think I started installer directly, but I can't be 100% sure any more.

At any rate, I cancelled the installation via the X and started it from the quick launch bar and the installer came up again.

I checked that the QL icon is in fact a shortcut pointing to ...program files\utorrent\utorrent.exe and not the installer that is sitting on my desktop.

I actually went to ..program files\utorrent and started the utorrent executable directly and still got the installer.

I decided to just let the installer run. It doesn't. One of two things eventually happens: either I get tired of waiting and deleted it from task manager, or I get an error message that says utorrent is already running.

Thinking that I may be starting it twice, I used OPEN in the context menu: same result.

I tried uninstalling uTorrent and re-installing it which appeared to work. When I started uTorrent the same thing happened. That puzzled me since uninstalling it should have allowed the installer to run again. Mind you, I never checked that the ...program files\utorrent directory had been removed so it's possible that it never truly uninstalled although my quick launch and desktop icons were removed.

I tried running the uTorrent executable from Task Manager. Same thing.

Rebooting the PC didn't help.

I finally decided to just click the "cancel" button (instead of the X, as I usually do). The installer stopped and uTorrent started.

I have not had the problem since.

Bizarre.

[Firon]

Cancel runs from where it is. That's why it worked for you.

Are you on Vista? Vista is picky about installing to program files.