When installing, pay close attention to each installation screen. You’ll be prompted to install other apps like SpyHunter or WinZip, and it may not be super obvious at first. Remove any checkmarks next to apps uTorrent asks you to install, and/or click Decline when prompted. If you get an error that says “Operation Did Not Complete Successfully Because the File Contains a Virus” when installing on Windows, it’s because Windows thinks uTorrent is malware. As long as you downloaded the installer straight from uTorrent. com, there’s not actually a virus. To install uTorrent anyway, here’s how you can allow the installer to run: Press Windows key + i to open Settings. Click Update & Security (Windows 10) or Privacy and security (Windows 11). Click Virus & threat protection. On the warning about uTorrent. exe or utweb_installer. exe, click the button at the bottom and select Allow on device.
If you want, you can use the tutorial to download a sample torrent—click Yes to try this out, or No if you already have a torrent in mind that you want to install. If prompted, follow the on-screen instructions to make uTorrent Web open torrent files by default.
If you want, you can use the tutorial to download a sample torrent—click Yes to try this out, or No if you already have a torrent in mind that you want to install. If prompted, follow the on-screen instructions to make uTorrent Web open torrent files by default.
Searching from uTorrent Web does a Google search for whatever you type plus the word “torrent. " You may find better results if you put a period before the word “torrent” in the search. For example, if you were looking for a torrent of the application Gimp, you can try searching like this: gimp . torrent instead of gimp torrent.
If you aren’t already familiar with the site, do some research before starting a download. One thing you can try is searching Google for the site’s address site and “reddit” to see if Redditors are talking about its legitimacy. Reddit is a great place to check for peoples’ experiences with torrenting websites. Sites like The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and RARBG are all popular sites, but be careful—they all offer pirated (illegal) content for download in addition to legitimate apps, games, and movies.
Check the number of “seeds” available for the torrent. A seeder is a person who has 100% of the file available for download at that moment. The more seeds available, the better the chance that you’ll get your files reasonably fast. If no seeds are available, the file will not begin to download until a seeder logs on. Many torrent websites have comment sections where people discuss their experience with a particular download. If there are viruses or malware in the torrent, you may see a comment indicating this, which will obviously be helpful before downloading.
You may have to select uTorrent Web as the default app the first time you open a . torrent file.
Once you click Add, the file(s) will start downloading (as long as there are seeders available). You can monitor the progress of your download right in the uTorrent Web window. It may take a few minutes for the torrent to get up to full download speed. The download time will depend on the number of seeds, your connection speed, the connection speed of the seeders, and how many downloads you have going at once.
To stop seeding a file, just click the toggle switch next to “Seeding” to turn it off.
When installing, pay close attention to each installation screen. You’ll be prompted to install other apps like SpyHunter or WinZip, and it may not be super obvious at first. Remove any checkmarks next to apps uTorrent asks you to install, and/or click Decline when prompted. If you get an error that says “Operation Did Not Complete Successfully Because the File Contains a Virus” when installing on Windows, it’s because Windows thinks uTorrent is malware. As long as you downloaded the installer straight from uTorrent. com, there’s not actually a virus. To install uTorrent anyway, here’s how you can allow the installer to run: Press Windows key + i to open Settings. Click Update & Security (Windows 10) or Privacy and security (Windows 11). Click Virus & threat protection. On the warning about uTorrent. exe or utweb_installer. exe, click the button at the bottom and select Allow on device.
Click the Options menu at the top of uTorrent. Click Preferences. Click the BitTorrent tab on the left. Under “Protocol Encryption,” select Enabled from the menu, and make sure the box next to “Allow incoming legacy connections” is checked. If you notice that your downloads are still slow later, try switching to Forced instead—the only catch is that there may be fewer peers to connect to when you’re trying to download files. Click OK.
If you notice that your downloads are still slow later, try switching to Forced instead—the only catch is that there may be fewer peers to connect to when you’re trying to download files.
Searching from uTorrent does a Google search in your default web browser for whatever you type plus the word “torrent. " You may find better results if you put a period before the word “torrent” in the search. For example, if you were looking for a torrent of the application OpenOffice, you can try searching openoffice . torrent instead of openoffice torrent.
Sites like 1337x and RARBG are popular torrent sites, but be careful—they offer pirated (illegal) content for download in addition to legitimate apps, games, and movies. Because many torrenting sites host illegal files, they get shut down quite often.
Look at the number of “seeds” available. A seeder is a person who has 100% of the file available for download at that moment. The more seeds available, the better the chance that you’ll get your files reasonably fast. If no seeds are available, the file will not begin to download until a seeder logs on. Many torrent websites have comment sections where people discuss their experience with a particular download. If there are viruses or malware in the torrent, you may see a comment indicating this, which will obviously be helpful before downloading.
You can also drag and drop the . torrent file right into uTorrent.
You can now search for and add other torrents if you’d like. Downloads will be prioritized in the order they were added
It may take a few minutes for the torrent to get up to full download speed. The download may take a while to finish depending on the number of seeds, your connection speed, the connection speed of the seeders, and how many downloads you have going at once.
To stop seeding, right-click the finished torrent and select Stop.
