having trouble associating torrents with utorrent

[grimshaid]

I recently switched from azureus to utorrent and I have to say I like the client a lot better - it seems to use a lot less resources to accomplish the task. I have one problem that's been immensely frustrating thus far, and that is that I cannot seem to associate new torrents with utorrent - when I click a torrent and it dl's it I get the error that the torrent could not be opened because the associated helper application could not be found. I have set in preferences for utorrent to look for torrents in the file which they go to (temp file), and if I browse to the file after closing the error message I can manually start the download form the torrent in there by "open with utorrent", but I can't seem to get it to do so automatically. In the preferences general section the option to integrate with windows and the 3 check boxes directly under that which seem to deal with associations are greyed out. upon installing I did check yes for torrents to be associated with utorrent however...

I'm usually pretty handy at figuring out issues like this but I seem to have hit a wall - if anyone has a solution I'd be awfully grateful.

[DreadWingKnight]

http://utorrent.com/faq.php#.C2.B5Torrent_won.27t_open_torrent_files_even_though_I_associated_torrents_with_it

[grimshaid]

yes I've seen that page, and it's a tad off the path to the list it refers to is tools>options>applications, but though there is a drop down list which shows azureus vuze downloads and has utorrent selected at the app to use, there is no option to remove the line entirely

edit: from a bit of tinkering it seems that the best option is to set firefox to ask what to do with the torrent via the tools > options > applications menu, and then when you click the first torrent to dl, set utorrent as the default at that dialogue rather than doing it earlier - for some reason this method worked and it now opens to utorrent by default, though in the applications it still refers to them in a base sense as azureus vuze downloads that utorrent is chosen to handle - apparently az/vuze is tough to get rid of. I've looked through the about:config menu of firefox as well as gone through the registry and deleted every leftover azureus and vuze keys I found in there.

so in short I've gotten it working as it needs to even if the labeling is no longer correct - hopefully this will save the next poor schmuck a little time

[Hypno112]

I was having the same exact problem and you're right the FAQ is a tad off....the fix was in your Edit...

Thanks for letting us know how u figured it out!!