support for non-administrator users

[derhundchen]

I've installed uTorrent v. 1.8.1 on my laptop with vista (x64) and I like to have a normal user account for most of my stuff and an administrator account when I need to do administrative tasks for a long period of time. However I noticed that the program is not available for normal users I'd hate to login to my administrator user just to use this program. Is it possible to support non-administrator users or is there a technical bareer?

Regards, Jose Ricardo.

[Switeck]

uTorrent REQUIRES read and write access to the folders of the files it's torrenting AND its own settings files. Such can be done for non-administrator users, but good luck setting that up in Windows!

[Saribro]

I'm thinking the "installer" only put the shortcut in the administrator startmenu.

You can make the startmenu shortcut available to all users by moving it to: C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\

It should run perfectly fine for normal users without any work.

[martix]

Easy solution - if you don't use admin account for torrenting AT ALL:

Just copy settings files from Admin's user dir to normal user's dir.

Elegant solution: Set up torrenting permissions correctly if you need to and then you would have to make a sync script for the settings. Which would require following:

1. Allow normal user read permission for uT's settings dir.

2. At logon execute a shell command to copy all files from that dir to the normal user's setting dir if there are newer.

3. Do the same on admin side.

I'm pretty sure it can be done, though I can't help you all that much on execution. Don't know how to do the attribute checks.