frat Posted July 25, 2010 Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 Ok, BitComet set itself up instead of uTorrent to associate with Magnet links when I started using Chrome as my browser, so... in uTorrent options I clicked the "associate magnet uris" button, no joy! BitComet was already set to always associate with magnets, so I removed that association in BitComet, went back to uTorrent to associate again with magnet links but the button was still greyed out so the change could not be made. After checking my options in Chrome, restarting Chrome, uTorrent and finally Windows I cannot find a way to re-associate Magnet URIs with uTorrent. I am not 100% certain this is the right forum to find an answer but can anyone help? Torrents are still associated with uTorrent which is fine, it is just Magnet links which are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattRatt Posted July 25, 2010 Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 Try uninstalling BitComet. You should get the "What should Windows do with this" (or whatever it says) dialog next time you try using a magnet link, and uT should be an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintball9 Posted July 26, 2010 Report Share Posted July 26, 2010 I had this happen a while back, I had vuze take over .torrent associations, and wouldn't return them even after a reinstall, for some reason it locked the whole association system to that install date, ended up reinstalling windows to clear it up. Big pain in the but. If you can't change it again try a roll-back to a date before this started happening, hopefully you have restore points still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted July 26, 2010 Report Share Posted July 26, 2010 The issue is with Chrome, you need to renew the magnet file association with utorrent.exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frat Posted July 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2010 Thanks for all the tips, I will try them out and see what happens - wish me luck lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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