stopads Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 Hi everyone,I'm using Windows 7 with a program called Deep Freeze. Drive D:\ is where I can save files and not be erased when restarted. Is there a way to start utorrent automatically from D:\ and have it run silently, minimized, and automatically add utorrent as the exception for the windows firewall? Is there a script or batch-file that can be made? I want utorrent to autostart in D:\ after windows is restarted.Any help would be appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsoran Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 Look at doing a "portable"/"self-contained" installation. You should probably save state with the firewall exception made. Otherwise you'd have to whip up a firewall command yourself somehow, perhaps using netsh if it lets you configure the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 If your network administrators have deployed "Deep Freeze" they have probably blocked installation of P2P applications and P2P traffic through the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stopads Posted January 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 If your network administrators have deployed "Deep Freeze" they have probably blocked installation of P2P applications and P2P traffic through the network.utorrent is not blocked at all as well as network traffic is allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stopads Posted January 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Look at doing a "portable"/"self-contained" installation. You should probably save state with the firewall exception made. Otherwise you'd have to whip up a firewall command yourself somehow, perhaps using netsh if it lets you configure the file.Is there a auto batch script or some kind of script that can be made to autostart from D:\? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsillup Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Is there a auto batch script or some kind of script that can be made to autostart from D:\?You were already given the solution. µTorrent can run from anywhere as long as settings.dat is located in the same directory as the executable. From the µTorrent help web page:How can I use µTorrent on a USB key or other removable drive?Copy settings.dat (located in %AppData%\uTorrent ) to the same folder as utorrent.exe, and you're done. If using 3.0 or newer, this also enables portable mode, which allows you to store everything on the drive itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stopads Posted January 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Is there a auto batch script or some kind of script that can be made to autostart from D:\?You were already given the solution. µTorrent can run from anywhere as long as settings.dat is located in the same directory as the executable. From the µTorrent help web page:How can I use µTorrent on a USB key or other removable drive?Copy settings.dat (located in %AppData%\uTorrent ) to the same folder as utorrent.exe' date=' and you're done. If using 3.0 or newer, this also enables portable mode, which allows you to store everything on the drive itself.[/quote']Hi jsillup,Sorry if I don't understand completely. I understand that i can install utorrent in portable mode in drive D:. The only thing is.... that I'm using Deep Freeze and it won't start up automatically. I can't change the settings in Deep Freeze. Since utorrent won't autostart because of Deep Freeze, is there a way to autostart utorrent from D: after the PC is restarted with a batch script or vb script?Thank you for your time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsillup Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 If Deep Freeze is deleting the uTorrent startup command from the registry (should be in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) then I cannot imagine how any other autorun mechanism could be implemented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Got to ask this question.Are you trying to get fired from your current job? Because any company IT manager that deploys such things as "Deep Freeze" is doing so to stop what you are attempting to do and prevent installations of malicious or non-approved, untested or 'cracked' software to protect the company network from infiltration by virus activity or trojans and avoid the possibility of illegal activity being linked to the company IPs. Any activity to subvert those safeguards would be considered as gross misconduct and result in termination of your employment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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