colt45joe Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Is this a bug?I'm using Windows 7 ultimate x64.right clicking on a torrent, and clicking on 'open containing folder' will open a window and create a new explorer.exe process. when i close that window, the explorer.exe process does not go away. and so, after some time, i will have a stack of explorer.exe processes in my task manager.. and it bothers me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Windows should terminate the processes after a while. µTorrent doesn't control how long they remain in memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 I thought with 2.0 it's not supposed to open a new explorer anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colt45joe Posted February 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 eh, well, windows does not terminate the explorer.exe.. it stays there forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Goes away on its own after a minute here. Something else must be locking them in memory on your end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grompy Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 it's probably the same windows 7 64bit problem that causes utorrent to stay active in the task manager as well.utorrent and windows 7 64 bit don't play very nicely together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Don't generalize. I use Windows 7 x64 here without any issue. As noted above, I observe explorer.exe terminating after approximately 1 minute, as decided by Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbow Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 I have also seen up to a dozen explorer.exe processes running in Windows 7 64 bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Sure, but do they eventually terminate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BocaJ Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 I have had this problem for a long time now but just found out today that uTorrent is making those duplicates of explorer.exeAnd no, the many extra explorer.exe never terminates on my Windows 7 64-bit machine.Stupidest bug I ever heard of whether it's Microsofts or uTorrents fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=90172 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BocaJ Posted February 15, 2011 Report Share Posted February 15, 2011 well, I found a simple solution for getting rid of duplicate explorer.exeSimply download the new beta version of uTorrent or just wait for the next update.I am running beta 2.2.1 now and "Open Containing Folder" never results in extra explorer.exe anymore Thank you uTorrent, I'm so happy to have this fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 It's not fully fixed (like in cases where the directory it's trying to open doesn't exist), but yeah, the solution I outlined in the thread I linked to was partially implemented in the beta builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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