Fix For uTorrent In Windows 7

By Nakodari | Published: October 27, 2009

uTorrent is by far the most popular windows desktop client to download torrents. Even though it works flawlessly for me in Windows 7, some people are having trouble using it. There are reports in various forums that uTorrent exceeds memory limit and shoots up to 100% in other cases some downloads will stop at 99.9%. In few cases uTorrent shows false reports and works oddly.

uTorrent is not the first app that is encountering such problems, Mozilla Thunderbird was also having trouble running in Windows 7 for some users. I have listed few fixes below that might help your uTorrent to act normally. ;)

1. Right-click uTorrent and go to Compatibility tab. Here, select Windows Vista under compatibility mode and make sure that it is checked to run under Administrator privileges. See screenshot below.

utorrent windows 7

2. Make sure you have added uTorrent in Firewall Exception. This step is just a reminder for those who might have forgotten it.

3. Go to Preferences > Advanced > Disk Cache and make sure both Disable Windows Caching Of Disk Writes and Disable Windows Caching Of Disk Reads are checked. This can help reduce the I/O Reads and I/O Writes, thus resolve the HDD speed and overload problem.

Preferences utorrent

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  • Upgrading to W7. If anything goes wrong, I'll try this, and give feedback. ;)
  • kirkpreston
    utorr is not comaptible with windows 7, if you close it down when you reload it still running in the background but you can't view it , the only way to get it back is to log off then back on.

    Also you can't uninstall it, I suspect background processes even using task manager it will not stop the processes, but then you can't reinstall either
  • dersali
    i tried everything and still get error access is denied
  • solaraxix
    Tried what you suggested and I am still having the same problems. Running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. I am getting a lot of access denied and with 100+ torrents the system gets unresponsive and when it does respond, I get errors saying that applications and system files are not there.

    (specs: i7 920 w/ 6 GB ram, ASUS RAMPAGE II GENE motherboard, and 1xSeagate 1.5 TB drive.)
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