NeoZero Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Ok guys, TL;DR version: just activated the "Check for updates automatically" option.Now, my particular case, at least:I was getting that "This Program is Freeware..." message every time I openned uTorrent after restarting my pc, since I upgraded my hardware. I could not just let it like that because my PC is set to power on automatically after there's power failure, with uTorrent set to open at Windows startup, so whenever there is a power failure when I'm not at home, my downloads can just resume.Ok, so I searched here and tried many ways of fixing this, but WITHOUT having to delete my settings and statistics. I created fresh new settings.dat by deleting my %appdata%\uTorrent folder (after making a backup of my settings.dat), and with this new file, that message was gone. Than, with the awesome BEncodeEditor, I tried to copy the CID and CIDS from this file to my older settings.dat, than used the old file with new CID, but it didn't work.So I tried the inverse: manually copied every setting but CID and CIDS from my old settings.dat to the new, working one. Didn't worked too.Than my last try: I made screenshots of my uTorrent settings window, so I would just reset the new settings.dat manually using uTorrent itself. This must be fail proof, huh? So I WTF'd when I got the damn message again after restarting! So it must have been one of the settings!I restarted the settings.dat again and proceeded to check setting by setting, restarting my pc (actually you can reproduce this by just logging off and on from Windows) to see WHEN that friggin' message would popup. And it was turning off "Check for updates automatically"! Just can't understand why!Then, with a new settings.dat, I just set every setting just like my old ones (but let "Check for updates automatically" ON), and there was no message. So I tried this: restored my old settings.dat file and just turned "Check for updates automatically" on, and it worked! So much work for just this!!Well, there you are. I searched the whole forum for solutions for this, tried many, and it didn't worked for me. Is this just a bug? If what I described here was already known by you and I missed it, I'm sorry. Also, sorry about my english, not my native language. Hope this works for other people (and not just me) and can help someone.And all this because I can't just go use other software, uTorrent is by far the best one! Thanks devs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Hm, I'd forgotten about that. It's been this way for forever, and isn't really a bug since it was designed this way. I'm not sure why, though, and I don't recall ever seeing any explanation other than that that's just how it is.What version of µTorrent are you using, by the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 What version were you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoZero Posted May 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 >Hm, I'd forgotten about that. It's been this way for forever, and isn't really a bug since it was designed this way. I'm not sure why, though, and I don't recall ever seeing any explanation other than that that's just how it is.Actually, it was supposed to show the message ONCE... or if you move the software to another pc, as it detect some hardware change, but even in this case, ONCE. When you restar your computer, the message should not show. That's the behaviour here now: no more message.>What version of µTorrent are you using, by the way?I was using 1.7 when the problem appeared, then upgraded to 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2 and now i'm using 1.8.3 Beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Right, the part where it's showing up repeatedly is a problem, I know. I'm saying that the fact that it's somehow tied to autoupdates isn't necessarily the bug. I saw the same issue in old test versions of 1.8.x, but the problem went away on its own after a few builds.Do you still have a settings.dat affected by the problem? If so, can you upload it somewhere potentially for the devs to see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoZero Posted May 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Oh, sorry, I got your words wrong. Here is the old file:http://rapidshare.com/files/234503969/settings.dat.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Doesn't seem to show up repeatedly for me. Just shows up the first time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoZero Posted May 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2009 >>Doesn't seem to show up repeatedly for me. Just shows up the first time...Hmm, I though it'd be like this. I'd like just to see if someone could reproduce the same behaviour on another pc. Oh, forgot to say: I'm using Vista x86 with SP1.I can just delete the %appdata% folder, open uTorrent like it's the first time, with it's default settings, tick off the update setting, and the message will appear at every Windows restart/logoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 19, 2009 Report Share Posted May 19, 2009 I always have auto-update off without seeing the dialog (WinXP w/ SP3). Auto-update is related to the problem, but not the entire equation either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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