dontaskagain Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 HiSo i was getting the BSOD at boot after a windows update on a new system. I did a system restore which fixed this problem but all the desktop short cuts etc had gone for uTorrent so i assumed it had been deleted. When i tried to install it again the exe launched utorrent instead of prompting to install. There is no uTorrent directory in program files, all the settings and other files are in application data but deleting them doesn't solve this problem.Downloading new torrents is buggy, XP throws an error about file association so i have to add them manually through utorrent. I can't uninstall it as there is no mention of it in add/remove programs. I can't be bothered to re-install xp over this so any suggestions of how i remove it so i can re-install correctly? The registry maybe?Many Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Did you search utorrent.exe with Win Explorer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontaskagain Posted March 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Hi Yes i have searched the drive for all files with 'torrent' in them, hidden files too!All it found was the executable which i downloaded on the desktop, some torrent files stored in a temp directory and the application data folder, that's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Ok you can try this.Check there is no folder Program Files\uTorrent with no *.exe.Back up %appdata%\utorrent (especially if you have reloaded some torrents in uT after the BSOD) then remove the entire folder.Reinstall uT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontaskagain Posted March 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Like i said in my first post there is no utorrent folder in program files and i have already tried to delete the app data folder, the only difference this made was to delete all my settings and existing torrents. Running the executable still just launches utorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 And did you try to find 'torrent' in the registry? You should find a key with the path of utorrent.exe as value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontaskagain Posted March 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 There's nothing in HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software orHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software Other than those places i have no idea where to check in the registry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 You can do a search (ctrl+f) in registry with keyword 'torrent'.Anyway I don't know really how the systeme restore has affected uT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontaskagain Posted March 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 HiYea i found 2 things searching the registry, what seemed like a .torrent file association and something else. Deleted them both and i can now install correctly.Thanks for the help.Damn system restore.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Yes a better solution is to use ERUNT restores, not these ones from Windows that are crappy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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