Reviews of µTorrent for Windows

1. 
   sehnbadt

   Reviewing 2.0 Build 17188 Beta (Nov 9, 2009)

   You guys are not scared to use µTorrent? Although originally developed by Ludvig Strigeus, since December 7, 2006 the code is owned and maintained by BitTorrent, Inc. According to the BitTorrent's website, the company has announced partnerships with many companies, including:
   
   * 20th Century Fox
   * Comedy Central
   * Lionsgate Films
   * MTV
   * Paramount
   * Spike TV
   * Warner Brothers
   * Netgear
   * Buffalo Technology
   * D-Link
   * New Line Cinema
   * Manga Entertainment
   
   They may be spying on you!
2. 
   Virtual_ManPL

   Reviewing 2.0 Build 17127 Beta (Nov 5, 2009)

   -- 2009-11-03: Version 2.0 Beta (buid 17127)
   - Change: enable multiple instances of the client to run on multi-user machines (e.g. fast user switching)
   - Fix: fixed uTP crash in edge condition
   - Fix: fixed crash when icmp.dll wouldn't contain the expected functions
   - Fix: fixed crash when closing add torrent dialog while dragging a column
   - Change: The Speed guide will now reject ports listed in bt.no_connect_to_services_list
   - Change: add an upgrade message if a buggy version of nvLsp is detected
   - Fix: don't take the total number of connections into account when connecting to trackers
   - Change: increase default transfer cap to 250 GB/month
   - Fix: Accounting of halfopen https connections would cause uT to stop making new connections
   - Change: Made the DHT compatible with future extensions
   - Fix: sometimes the &ip= parameter sent to trackers would be incorrect
   - Fix: correctly order bencoded dict items in extension handshake message
   - Fix: fixed holepunch error handling and support detection
3. 
   Virtual_ManPL

   Reviewing 1.8.5 Build 17056 RC2 (Oct 28, 2009)

   -- 2009-10-28: Version 1.8.5 (build 17056)
   - Fix: Vista and Windows 7 FW rules are created for all profiles
   - Fix: /recover can be used without attempting to submit a crashdump
   
   -- 2009-10-21: Version 1.8.5 (build 16977)
   - Change: add an upgrade message if a buggy version of nvLsp is detected
   - Fix: don't take the total number of connections into account when connecting to trackers
   - Fix: Accounting of halfopen https connections would cause uT to stop making new connections
4. 
   Virtual_ManPL

   Reviewing 2.1 Build 16932 Beta (Oct 21, 2009)

   -- 2009-10-15: Version 2.1 Beta (build 16932)
   - Fix: Accounting of halfopen https connections would cause uT to stop making new connections
   - Change: Made the DHT compatible with future extensions
   - Fix: sometimes the &ip= parameter sent to trackers would be incorrect
   - Fix: correctly order bencoded dict items in extension handshake message
   - Fix: fixed holepunch error handling and support detection
   - Fix: check invalid ports and IPs in the DNS resolver to avoid using them
   - Fix: various polishing on the setup guide
   - Fix: potential crash related to TLS not being initialized
   - Change: Better handle torrents with files having case insensitive equivalent paths
   - Feature: support trackers and web seeds in magnet links
   - Change: Redirect WebUI requests from /gui to /gui/
   - Change: Disable installer for Wine
   - Change: Balance CDNs to download updates
   - Fix: Fixes bug where magnet links wouldn't work if PEX was disabled
   - Fix: potential crash in network code
   - Fix: More crashes when using magnet links
   - Fix: Port settings saved in Setup guide
   - Change: Updated helpfile links to use redirects
   - Feature: added RSS feeds and filters to WebUI
   - Fix: fixed crashes in setup guide
   - Fix: greyout custom toolbar with transparency
   - Change: Disable Ask for unsupported 64-bit Windows
   - Fix: fixed UDP-tracker crash when dns resolution would fail
   - Change: Use user-supplied port in Setup Guide, save auto-portmap prefs.
   - Change: Added European Servers in Setup Guide
   - Change: New Icons in Setup Guide
   - Fix: Improper mutex accounting in hang detector
   - Fix: crash when creating torrents
5. 
   mjm01010101

   Reviewing 2.1 Build 16932 Beta (Oct 16, 2009)

   Using build 16850 and no issues.

Discuss µTorrent for Windows

1. Sep 23, 2009 - 4:10 AM
   popmlr

   when i download large files from torrents i get ndis.sys blue screen error