µTorrent

[Big Booger]

µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients. With BitTorrent, you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth.

Features: Written from scratch in C++ with efficiency in mind; Manages multiple simultaneous downloads; Smart bandwidth usage; File level priorities; Global and per-torrent upload/download rate limiting; Quickly resumes interrupted transfers; Universal Plug&Play (WinXP only);

Supports popular protocol extensions; Low memory footprint and decent speeds; Attractive Interface: When hunting for mini-BTclients, interface it's usually the first thing that goes out the window for the sake of filesize / processing. This is not the case with µTorrent. All information that I routinely check is represented (file listing, pieces, tracker details). This BitTorrent client seems to have all the best features of programs like Azureus or ABC but is under 100K of size ! No Install Required.

This release brings proxy support, experimental ipfilter.dat support (see the Settings section of the FAQ for details), new icons and many new features and fixes. It's available from teh download section or through the application's builtin auto-update feature.

- Feature: Base the ETA value on the actual size.
- Feature: Show the total size and skipped size in the generals tab.
- Fix: If download speed below [ ] limit upload to [ ] used bytes/s instead of kB/s.
- Feature: Added queued status icons.
- Feature: Added Clear Logger / Verbose option.
- Change: Changed timeout before retrying a peer.
- Feature: Added a couple of new menu hotkeys in main window.
- Feature: Changed telia.com and bredband.com flags into swedish.
- Fix: Possibly fixed the opendialog crash bug.
- Change: New Icon (thanks BloodStainedHurricane)
- Change: New toolbar/status icons (thanks D
rLamok)
- Fix: Print all three connected/in-list/scrape values on the generals tab.
- Feature: Added option to create private torrents.
- Feature: If a language file is present, startup uTorrent with the system language (if available)
- Feature: Added 'Hacker' translation
- Fix: Load torrents from the autoload folder when uTorrent starts.
- Feature: Added option to close file handles every minute. Might lower windows's file cache.
- Fix: Don't show 100% if torrent is not fully downloaded (rounding error).
- Feature: Experimental support for ipfilter.dat
- Fix: Fixed crash bug when loading torrents.
- Feature: Added option to order downloads.
- Feature: Support for Socks4, Socks5, HTTP, and HTTPS proxys.
- Change: Changed default value for cpu_mode and slow connects to true.
- Fix: If switching to unlimited download speed, it would temporarily set download speed to zero.
- Fix: Changed to work with some buggy trackers that don't support :80 in the Host field.
- Change: Don't default open file name dialog to last filename.
- Change: Add with No Default Save doesn't default to download location.
- Feature: Added option to notify the user when a download is complete.
- Fix: Half open connection counter could count wrong.
- Change: Show scrape peers/seeds in main list.
- Fix: Remove spaces from base directory name.
- Feature: Support HTTP 302 Found.
- Fix: German flag color was broken.
- Fix: Fix problem with autoupdater. If the old process was still running, it would show an empty error message.
- Feature: Detect more peer ids: Burst!, G3, bitcomet < 0.59

:view:DEVELOPER (http://utorrent.com/) | :source:SOURCE (http://www.klitetools.com/index.php) | :download:DOWNLOAD (http://utorrent.com/download/1.1.5/utorrent.exe)

[ragnarok]

Yep, thats an Azureus knock-off. You might as well get that instead, its been around alot longer. Although I might take a look at it cuz the people of Azureus been adding too much crap, and its starting to take its toll on the cpu and memory.

[Big Booger]

Yep, thats an Azureus knock-off. You might as well get that instead, its been around alot longer. Although I might take a look at it cuz the people of Azureus been adding too much crap, and its starting to take its toll on the cpu and memory.

And they've been updating it like an overworked hooker.

[efc]

Try BitTornado to avoid spyware and malware. It is a plain vanilla product without frills. Works great. LINK (http://www.bittornado.com/download.html)

[Big Booger]

Try BitTornado to avoid spyware and malware. It is a plain vanilla product without frills. Works great. LINK (http://www.bittornado.com/download.html)

But does it support:

Feature: Experimental support for ipfilter.dat

;)

[efc]

I don't know.

[Big Booger]

µTorrent is a lot like bittornado. It's basic, but it works well and is being developed daily. I just started using it, and tried downloading Xandros 3.02 and it was moving at around 250KB/s. I like it.

I think if you like Bittornado efc, you'll love utorrent:

uTorrent's smallness.
I mean, its only 91kb. Uses almost no memory at all. You dont even install it - it's all in one small package. (you run it from the executable.. no files to install.)

[hotmale]

How does µTorrent compare to BitComet? I want to know from someone who's tried them both.

The size of µTorrent is unbeatable, but since there's no installation, does it create too many additional files and registry entries consequently making it hard to uninstall?

[Big Booger]

The only thing that this doesn't support is DHT.... but it will soon.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?t=82
Read the FAQ.

The program itself is a lot like bitcomet, only simplified. I runs from the executable... it is clean, doesn't clog your system...

It's designed by programmers who care more about how it works, than how it looks. And you can tell... it looks spartan, but in my opinion that is great.

One of the great features is the ability to create a new torrent thought I haven't tried that yet.

On my system downloading several files at a time, I get a 3.4K memory usage using utorrent.

If you like flashy effects, and sweet icons, and so on this is not the release for you.

If you want a no frills bittorrent app that gets the job done, it might suit your needs.

[hotmale]

Thanks for the info. From the screenshot, it seems to do everything that I'd need, but I already have BitComet and I'm happy with it :) Though I might try µTorrent someday.

[Big Booger]

Thanks for the info. From the screenshot, it seems to do everything that I'd need, but I already have BitComet and I'm happy with it :) Though I might try µTorrent someday.

For now, bitcomet might be the better of the two.. considering it supports DHT, whereas utorrent doesn't yet...

:D But if you want to try something new, who knows it may grow on you.

[Big Booger]

It's here. Yes, that annoying bug where µTorrent would not start after an unclean shutdown has been fixed. Some small usability improvements were made. Also, ipfilter file is loaded correctly now. Go get it from the download (http://www.utorrent.com/download.php) section!

--- 2005-10-21: Version 1.1.7 (build 288)
- Fix: Ipfilter was off by default (and there was no way to enable it).
- Fix: True/False boxes in advanced settings page wern't hidden when window is loaded.
- Fix: Advanced settings dialog would crash if you double clicked outside of the list.
- Fix: deadlock if utorrent was shutdown apruptly.
- Change: Compute ratio as uploaded/total_size instead of uploaded/downloaded for seeding tasks.
- Fix: Start seeding checkbox in Create Torrent dialog was buggy.
- Feature: Added search engine feature.
- Change: Create Torrent dialog generates less pieces in "Autosize" mode.
- Fix: ipfilter.dat didn't work.
- Fix: Increase the amount of laziness for lazy_bitfield.
- Change: Redesigned seeding priority system.
- Fix: Support moving directories across partitions on Win2k/XP.
- Feature: Added option to hide µTorrent from the tray.
- Feature: Increase # of uploads if uploading is slow.
- Fix: Ignore case when sorting torrents.
- Feature: Show tray popup if there's a download error.
- Feature: Single click on tray icon.

This thing is getting updates like crazy.. and if you have it already downloaded it will auto-update for you... great feature.

Already up to version 1.1.7 Very nice! And under 100KB

[Big Booger]

For those that had this installed. On Christmas you should have been greeted with a semi-easter egg:
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/827/j5gume4wy.th.png (http://img379.imageshack.us/my.php?image=j5gume4wy.png)

at least I was.

[carloc]

Nice skin BB, where did you get it?

[Big Booger]

Nice skin BB, where did you get it?
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=1255

They are made by foood. He even changed the system tray icon. Very nice.

[efc]

Hey BB, I admire your guts. Calling yourself "The Grand Chilli Dog" leaves you open to someone like me changing that to "The Big Weiner".:D

Merry Christmas, my good friend.

[carloc]

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=1255

They are made by foood. He even changed the system tray icon. Very nice.Just installed! Really nice!
Thanks BB :)

[Big Booger]

Hey BB, I admire your guts. Calling yourself "The Grand Chilli Dog" leaves you open to someone like me changing that to "The Big Weiner".:D

Merry Christmas, my good friend.

So you get the double meaning too eh? :D 15 inches long, 8 inches thick. :assshake:

[rik]

And they let you teach their children...

tsk tsk http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4379/what5pi.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[petard]

http://www.transcending-bliss.net/xmb/images/smilies/fryingpan.gif

[Big Booger]

And they let you teach their children...

tsk tsk http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4379/what5pi.gif (http://imageshack.us)

I never mix teaching with techzonez jibber jabber. :D

[Big Booger]

1.4 version has been released:

:download: Download: µtorrent v1.4 (http://www.utorrent.com/download/1.4/utorrent.exe)

[Big Booger]

New utorrent version 1.5 released with major updates:

View the Changelog:


--- 2006-03-07: Version 1.5 (build 436)
- Feature: Setting to determine the number of ľTorrent users.
- Feature: Use icons instead of network ok/nat error
- Feature: Auto detect read cache size
- Feature: Language file can be auto updated
- Feature: Keys can be used in main listview to move to the right item
- Feature: New easter egg
- Feature: RSS Help button
- Feature: Reorder RSS favorites
- Feature: If user is running from temporary internet files, prompt to install it.
- Feature: Added popup menu to easily change if the scheduler/dht is enabled.
- Feature: Added log-to-file option in logger.
- Feature: Option to always prioritize the rarest pieces.
- Feature: Added active/inactive categories in category list
- Feature: DEL key works in RSS history, and the last item is selected
- Feature: RSS history remembers only 500-600 items
- Feature: XML parser supports # tags
- Feature: Determine the values to show in the speed popup list automatically.
- Feature: Category list to filter main torrent list.
- Feature: Propagate encryption support through PEX
- Feature: Choose what happens on double click in torrent list
- Feature: Show a special message if utorrent crashes while NOD32 is active.
- Feature: Added scheduler mode to seed only (hold Shift button)
- Feature: Support min_interval key
- Feature: Ctrl Up/Down to move up/down a torrent
- Feature: Show average up/down speed since start.
- Feature: Show encryption status in Flags field
- Feature: Copy hosts from peer list
- Feature: Peer Exchange (only with ľT peers for now)
- Feature: Protocol Encryption (compatible with future azureus)
- Feature: Bypass Windows XP Firewall
- Feature: Make torrent prioritized from add torrent window
- Feature: RSS toolbar button
- Feature: Smart RSS episode filtering - avoids downloading the same ep twice.
- Feature: ESC minimizes
- Change: Rearranged settings dialog
- Change: Default to priorizing rarest pieces
- Change: Switch default theme
- Change: Skip hidden/system files when creating torrent.
- Change: Right align some columns.
- Change: Remove spaces from urls in RSS feeds
- Change: DHT binds UDP socket to net.bind_ip
- Change: Smarter block hashing, tries to avoid re-reading from the file if possible.
- Change: Tracker connections obey max_halfopen/max_connections
- Change: Switching folder in the Add window tries to detect if you point at an already downloaded folder.
- Change: Added support for " in XML parser
- Change: Optimized disk-io
- Change: coalesce_writes defaults to true
- Change: &Exit to E&xit
- Change: Show up/down arrows in listview headers
- Change: Rearranged some stuff in the settings dialog
- Change: Add FAQ to the help menu
- Change: Use UTF-8 instead of utf-8 in created torrents.
- Change: Min autodetected piecesize is now 64k.
- Change: Remember last active RSS page.
- Change: Don't increase counters while paused.
- Change: Auto detect if RSS feed uses latin1 or utf8.
- Change: Sort by scrape peers instead of connected peers
- Change: Relevance rounds up instead of down.
- Change: Rename langpack to utorrent.lng.
- Change: If langpack is in the exedir, it gets installed to APPDATA.
- Change: Remember if torrents have errored when you restart
- Change: Optimizations to piecepicker algorithm
- Change: Fast/Slow pieces
- Change: Simplified encryption settings
- Change: Support langpack.zip with translations.
- Change: Don't download first/last piece of a file first. Can be re-enabled.
- Change: Added a black down image to the spyglass icon
- Change: Protect webui with a password
- Change: Include beta build # in http requests.
- Change: Show in the search box.
- Change: Open partfile in read only mode if read/write fails.
- Change: Read cache uses less CPU
- Change: Support paths >260 chars.
- Change: Icons in RSS Releases (thanks TVTAD)
- Change: RSS Not filtering matches full release name
- Change: RSS Reader supports more date formats
- Change: Adjusted some lazy bitfield parameters
- Change: Renamed to RSS Downloader
- Change: Allow deleting multiple history lines at the same time
- Change: Improvements to RSS parser
- Change: Pause button toggles
- Change: net.low_cpu defaults to false.
- Change: Reworked network code for faster speeds.
- Change: Add torrent dialog defaults to whatever folder entered in settings
- Change: Added some qualities to rss reader
- Change: Changed date format
- Fix: Work better when large fonts are used.
- Fix: Prevent windows from going above pixel 0.
- Fix: Ratio on generals tab wasn't computed exactly like the main list.
- Fix: Crash bug with columns
- Fix: Better support for adjusted computer clock.
- Fix: Don't behave incorrectly if 0-byte files are deleted by the user.
- Fix: If the torrent storage path hasn't been created, create it.
- Fix: Fix a crash related to language packs.
- Fix: Superseeding works better
- Fix: RSS feeds are utf8-decoded
- Fix: Deleting from RSS history forgot about sorting
- Fix: Disallow some more characters from filenames
- Fix: Crash when deleting multiple items from RSS history
- Fix: RSS parser parsed month bad for some timestamps.
- Fix: Fixed crash in torrent creator
- Fix: Ipfilter memory leak
- Fix: Support mixes of name and name.utf8
- Fix: Sorting reverse by name didn't work
- Fix: Improved autoload so it waits a bit if the file hasn't fully been written to disk yet.
- Fix: Stop ALL torrents when scheduler is active.
- Fix: When moving a complete download, use the name entered in the add dialog instead of the default.

:source: utorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/)

File attached is the latest 1.5 version!

[Big Booger]

And yet another update:

http://www.utorrent.com/download/1.5/utorrent.exe