thosearentmuskets Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 I've used uTorrent successfully for a while now on this computer, but all of a sudden it no longer works at all.When I try to open the program it doesn't appear at all. The "uTorrent.exe" process immediately uses 25% of my CPU (which is a quadcore), but nothing appears on the screen.The weirdest part is, I tried to uninstall uTorrent, and it wouldn't let me do that (same problem), and then I deleted it and tried to install a new version, and it won't let me do that either. The "uTorrent.exe" file I download from the website just doesn't do anything (but the process uses 25% of CPU).I'm on a relatively new computer running Windows 7, and I think I had updated uTorrent to the newest version. I tried installing older versions, but also no luck. I have no anti-virus programs and I am running no windows security features that I know of.Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mygrapefruit Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 I have this exact problem, started this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mygrapefruit Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 Alright, I found some old threads which adressed the same problem: THE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM IS THIS (just like the post before said)1. COPY AND PASTE: %appdata%\utorrent TO ANY OPEN WINDOWS EXPLORER WINDOW IN THE LOCATION BAR.2. DELETE THESE TWO FILES:settings.dat settings.dat.oldIt worked for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thosearentmuskets Posted May 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 This worked.Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.reed Posted May 14, 2012 Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 Exact same problem, exact 25% (except I am on a shitty old computer) and exact same solution. Thanks so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazJon Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Wow same problem, was about to go nutz until I found this fix.(done, and up again) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allitnil Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 thank you mygrapefruit!!!!that did work!!! funny thing is, there are a ton of other people with the same problem and not one of the administrators had a useful answer!!i am a download junkie and would have gone nuts without utorrent!allitnil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcoulter98 Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 You are a god amongst men mygrapfruit. I also had this problem except it would run if i used the runas command. I also noticed that Utorrent Portable worked just fine so it was annoying as hell.Any ideas on what caused it in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allitnil Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 well, the fix worked for a night- but now i have the same problem again. the files replaced themselves. so i used revo to force uninstall. then went to oldapps.com and got version 2.2 - that seems to be working- i like that version better anyway.i will repost if that ends up failing too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 well, the fix worked for a night- but now i have the same problem again. the files replaced themselves. so i used revo to force uninstall. then went to oldapps.com and got version 2.2 - that seems to be working- i like that version better anyway.i will repost if that ends up failing too.Well, you need to be on the newest 3.1.3, and you also need to make sure uT is closed before you delete those files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allitnil Posted May 21, 2012 Report Share Posted May 21, 2012 i understand that i should be using the latest version of UT 3.1.3, but that is the one causing the problems. there are several similar post with the same problem and none of the administrators had one helpful piece of advice.UT was locked and unresponsive, just app error msgs. now that the older version is installed, i just updated it--- it seems i had to trick it into the latest version since just installing the 3.1.3 did not work.i think i'm out of the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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