Stop uTorrent 2.0 from Automatically Starting in Windows
If you’re using the new uTorrent 2.0, you might have noticed that it starts automatically when booting into Windows. Even if you disable it in System Configuration. Here we show you how to completely disable it from starting automatically.
Open uTorrent and from the menu bar go to Options \ Preferences and under the General section uncheck the box next to Start uTorrent on system startup, then click Ok to close out of Preferences.
In Windows 7 or Vista go to Start and enter msconfig into the Search box.
In XP you need to go to Start \ Run then type in msconfig.
In System Configuration click the Startup tab then uncheck uTorrent and click Ok.
Now you won’t have UTorrent starting up automatically every time you restart your Windows machine.
This article was originally written on 02/8/10
That’s odd, uTorrent respected the setting to not launch at boot for me. I’m running the latest beta, and have been for some time.
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I’m not sure finding the point of this how-to, I mean, I want to think that every user (that considers a geek, at least) that visit this blog, already knows about managing apps that starts with OS.
And, it is always better to turn it on/off from within application’s preferences, rather that from msconfig, because this way, it will remove it from the list, and if you do it from msconfig, sometimes when you reactivate it or reinstall the application, you get a duplicate instance on the list, and that sucks.
I have uTorrent installed and have the described checkbox unchecked on uTorrent “General” window. uTorrent is not listed in “Startup” tab in “msconfig”, but still starts up at computer boot. Is there any way to prevent automatic loading when uTorrent is not listed in the startup tab?
If you do not disable the option for utorrent to start on system startup from within the program, it will re-enable the changed msconfig option every time you open it.