narashima Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 Hi, I love utorrent but have started having a small but annoying problem with it since I shifted to Vista. the problem is as follows: If I exit the utorrent application for some reason and then try to reopen it I get the following error message that says something like: unable to bring up the process. It is already openAnd sure enough a utorrent process shows up in the task manager. But I am unable to kill it using the "end task" button on the task manager. Also, I am unable to use utorrentThe only way out then is to restart windows to use utorrent.Any idea how to fix this problem?Thanks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 Can you try Ctrl-P > Advanced > bt.graceful_shutdown ? I think it's been updated... have you ever run uTorrent as admin before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 Uninstalling ZoneAlarm if you have it installed would be a good idea too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narashima Posted September 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Thanks Kristy. I changed that parameter to true. Now, when I exit it still shows in the task manager. But when I hit end task on the task manager the process closes and then I am able to restart utorrent. It's a 2 step process but I can live with it.I do not know what you mean by 'running utorrent as admin" DreadWingKnight, I do have Zonealarm installed. But I rely heavily on it to keep my pc clean so I am not comfortable removing it.Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Zone Alarm has a nasty bug in it that locks the process in the kernel and prevents a shutdown.It's not even a great firewall, though it certainly makes you "feel" safe by alerting you to lots of 'attacks'. It's not going to magically prevent infections or anything useful. Same goes for any firewall, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narashima Posted September 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2008 Hi Firon, I wasn't aware of the bug. Is this zonealarm bug specific to utorrent? I ask because I find myself killing firefox quite often without seeing the problem I see with utorrent.Also, is there any other firewall/security suite you recommend?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Unknown, though it wouldn't be surprising if it were causing such issues with other Internet-enabled applications. ZA has been known to cause many issues with P2P in general in the past.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=292343#p292343Comodo is a fair/free replacement for ZA. If you're using ZASS, then the antivirus component can be replaced with the free Avira AntiVir Personal Edition (superb detection rates with minimal system impact). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeevik Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 I have the same problem. I have posted this problem in another thread related to speed. Just note that it has nothing to do with Zone Alarm. Terminating ZA does not resolve this issue.Neither making bt graceful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 "Terminating ZA does not resolve this issue."Did you completely uninstall ZA?If not, that comes as no suprise...ZA is buried DEEP in your computer's OS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 ZA has to be uninstalled. Terminating the process won't work, as there's much more to ZA than just a single process hooked into your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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