Traces

[openwater]

If you install / use utorrent on some machine, does it leave traces.

That is e.g. registry entries or something in "documents and settings" or so.

Or is it just the .exe file, as I assume ?

Or possibly a dump file in case of error.

[Ishidropi]

i havent seen registry entries for utorrent.exe

but it stores information in the "application data"-folder.

which is micro$ofts preferred method to store settings and data

"%USERPROFILE%Application DatauTorrent"

[Brandy]

found UTORRENT.EXE-06CAE387.pf in C:WINDOWSPrefetch

dunno what the heck it means or anythin but that is what I found

[Firon]

That's a prefetch file created by Windows to load it faster upon next startup. No need to delete that, Windows manages the Prefetch cache just fine.

[Martin]

In the registry:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsutorrent.exe]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsutorrent.exeshell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsutorrent.exeshellopen]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsutorrent.exeshellopencommand]

@=""C:\utorrent\utorrent.exe" "%1""

The path depends on where you have stored utorrent.

These registry entries only exists if torrent-files are associated with uTorrent.

Folders:

%APPDATA%uTorrent - settings, resume data and torrent-files

%WINDIR%Prefetch - Windows XP prefetches applications that you use often to make them run faster. This is why you might see a utorrent-related file in this directory.

[chaosblade]

Delete the .exe, Delete the uTorrent folder inside %appdata% (start -> run -> %appdata%).

Prefetch and the associated registers aren't really needed to be cleaned, windows will manage those just fine.