Turboflat4 Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Hi everyone, I'm hoping to get a little advice here. I'm currently running utorrent as a Scheduled Task on Windows 7. The task was set up to launch at startup, regardless of user logon, and is set to run as one of my standard user accounts. I did this so that I would always have utorrent running in the background whenever the computer is started up, and I wouldn't miss any RSS feeds if the computer was shutdown/restarted unexpectedly.My issue is this - when I want to look at the torrents that are currently being transferred, I need to open up the GUI. Instead of opening up the GUI of the session that's currently being run in the background as a scheduled task, it's opening up a new session. This forces rechecks of files already in the process of being downloaded, and if I leave this second session open long enough, it causes a sharing violation since the same file is being written into by two different sessions of utorrent. Also, it's impossible to remove Finished torrents because stopping/deleting them from the list only removes them from the most recent session; the one that remains running in the background still "remembers" all the torrents and continues to seed.Right now, the only way to get around this issue is to kill the original task (either with Task Manager or via command line using "taskkill /f /im utorrent.exe"). Either way, I have to drop into my admin account since the scheduled task had to be created using an admin account in the first place. And when I do this, all transfers are interrupted and have to be restarted with a recheck.This is, needless to say, a royal pain in the arse. I'm thinking about writing a script to kill the old task and launch a new one, but this is still not a great solution as it interrupts my ongoing transfers, etc.What I'm really looking for is a way to open the GUI on the currently running session of utorrent (the one that's running as a scheduled task) instead of the current behaviour of just opening a new session. Does anyone know how to do this, please?Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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