Stop all connections when go to standby/hibernate

[knari]

I could not find such feature in utorrent and nobody discuss it in the forum as I see.

The idea is to stop all connections if the computer or the user himself forces the the PC into standby or hibernate mode.

Why it could be useful: let look the case when we use ipfilter.dat. For example we have some private tracker with private torrents. ipfilter.dat describes which IPs we have to ignore. uTorrent works on some laptop. Everything works fine.

Then I hibernate the laptop and go to my office, for example. In the office I have another Internet provider and I do not wish to allow somebody be connected to my uTorrent here. In the office my IP address has been changed, uTorrent shows that the tracker is unavailable now, nobody can connect to me from outside. BUT!!!! But if I had some connections when I hibernated my laptop uTorrent has some peers, still opened. And it seems that it itself inform these peers about is new IP address. This allows these peers to continue download data from me regarding unavailable tracker and ipfilter.dat

If I stop the connections and start them again the peers loose me and then they cannot connect to me again. But I should make it manually.

So, I think the option to stop all connections when hibernate could be very useful in such very specific case.

[Ultima]

... The request doesn't make sense at all. What you're suggesting is that connections can still be established when the power is essentially off. That's like saying you can still receive phone calls even though you pulled the power source on your phone.

[knari]

No-no-no! You did not understand my request. Instead, I wish to NOT establish connections AFTER my laptop goes back from the hibernation. Of course I do not think that my laptop can send something when the power is off. But at the moment I see that after the hibernation my laptop can be connected by peers even if my IP has been changed. This is not acceptable to me. And this is why I ask to have some option that could STOP all connections when the power is being off. Moreover I think it is not a problem if I really shut down the PC. But I see the problem if I use the hibernation, not shutdown.

[Ultima]

Fair enough.

Comment: In the end, I still think you're missing the point of hibernation/standby then. Hibernation/standby are used to reserve power while maintaining the current system state completely. If you don't like that µTorrent's state is maintained, then make it enter a state that you want it to be in when you next start the computer. AKA exit µTorrent yourself before you make the computer hibernate/standby, or just don't bother using hibernate/standby at all. Otherwise, you're using the wrong tool for the job, and trying to make µTorrent comply to that (incorrect) usage. IMHO.

[knari]

Yes, this is exactly what I want. But this is a MANUAL action. The flag could make automatically. Sometimes it could be useful. And I do not order it, I just describe a feature that could be implemented

[Firon]

This won't happen.

We'd have to delay standby/hibernate for it to work anyway. Not sure Windows would even LET us do that.

[hermanm]

You could force kill utorrent.exe using a command line tool like process.exe. There are also third-party tools that will let you hibernate and run specific commands before you hibernate. Just do web search.