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.
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.
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Upgrading to W7. If anything goes wrong, I'll try this, and give feedback.
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
utorrent needs no installation :/
i tried everything and still get error access is denied
works fine bitch
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.)
always grateful for the time and commitment shown by contributors, it makes dealing with problems much less frustrating. Many thanks and please continue to help the 'less fortunate'!
Thank u!
Now it's work much better =)
always used utorrent with vista workd great now have windows 7 utorrent not working.when i would find a movie to download click on it box comes up i would click save to desktop then when i went back to my desktop the utorrent box would pop up with the name of the movie under it and a folder would pop up next to it with avi on it. when movie was done i would remove it and drag both boxes into my dwnload icon then i could clik on the folder and watch the movie.now utorrent box comes up avi folder doesnt come up and i cant find it and when i have found it its empty. iam not computer ileterate so i need help.any help is much appreciated.
There s a problem in Windows 7 about saving files to MY DESKTOP.. So Change your save files directory from Utorrent Options. Try other directory which is not shared by windows or other users. it would be work.
I think this stuff applies to pre 2.0 versions as mine looks a fair bit different.
That said, mine has gone haywire under Win 7 and I am still looking for solutions.
Thank you VERY much! This works perfectly for me in Win7 Ultimate 64-bit and 2.0.2
utorent 1.7.1 doesnt have compatibility issues in win 7
I used utorrent with windows vista with no problem. Now I have 64 bit windows 7 I have to uninstall utorrent and reinstall utorrent everytime I want to download something. I can see the pers it just comes up blank with seeds. After reinstalling again I get great downloas speed. Any advice around this would be appreciated
thanx really this setting is very usfull for win 7 and torrent is going well ..
My speed is all over the place in windows 7
Thanks a lot for the tips given here. I was pulling my hair over what was wrong but you guys helped me fix it. I changed the security settings to ensure that utorrent always ran as administrator and everything worked perfectly.
Thanks again
THANK YOU! The simple step of changing ‘compatability’ to Vista in properties has worked. Previously, Utorrent was running in the background with the main screen unavailable.
I use the latest uTorrent version in Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and found that when you minimize uTorrent, it won’t go to the taskbar, but does show up and is still running in the task flag area (next to the notifications flag). With Clearwire 4G, it runs real good. But I’ve experienced some crashes of the O/S, and not sure if uTorrent is to blame.
i am still having issue in my windows 7 home premium. my utorrent gives error that its not a valid win32 file. what should i do?
U are Star
Thanks Man
I tried all the things written here, but i’m still getting the “Access denied” error.
I also have vista home edition 32 bit installed in my laptop as second OS, and i have no problem in Utorrent downloads..
The green tick always there, download is in great speed but it shows no upload and then the damn access denied error..
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