Moving your active uTorrent torrents between computers

brendo — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:38:53 +0000

I am about to reformat my computer, but have torrents in the middle of downloading and can’t wait until they are finished, so this little trick is a godsend.

Navigate to
C:\Users\Brendo\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent
and back up the entire directory. (In Vista, not sure of the exact directory in XP)

Then navigate to your downloads folder
C:\Users\Brendo\Downloads
in my case, and back that up too.

Once you have reformatted/moved and installed uTorrent, simply drag those two directories over the top of what is already there and voila! your torrents are back how they were.

Now to finish setting up this computer to puuuurrrr…

Opening Twhirl links in Firefox on Vista

brendo — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:58:33 +0000

So I’m sure I’m not the only one who is extremely frustrated by all links that I click from Twhirl opening in Internet Explorer, even though I have Firefox set as my default browser.

It turns out this is some little quirk between Vista and Air, but it is fixable if you follow these steps:

Step 1:

Open Default Programs from the start menu.

Step 2:

Choose “Set Program Access and Computer Defaults”

Step 3:

Click Custom, then choose Mozilla Firefox (or whatever your default browser is) and click ok.

And now you are done

Brendo

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Moving your active uTorrent torrents between computers

Opening Twhirl links in Firefox on Vista