Techies, help! Bit-Torrent agent is closing my INTERNET explorer.

[Room101]

I’m using Azureus as my Bit Torrent agent for downloading from Suprnova.org.

When, I click on a file to download; my Internet Explorer closes. I’m all up to date with my XP and Internet explorer. I have tried disabling my firewall and pop up blocker to no avail.

I, installed the same thing on my buddies computer and it works perfect.

Please, help a DU brotha out.

[Mojambo]

1. I've found the peeps at this forum to be of great help

http://www.phoenix-torrents.com/index.php?showforum=144

Post your question there and maybe they can help?

I use Firefox and Azureus works flawlessly.

[qnr]

2. What do you mean?

"When I click on a file to download" -- are you selecting the file from within IE and wanting Azureus to start? Or selecting it inside Azureus and somehow it is crashing IE?

I can't help directly, because I use Linux for BT, and a curses based client that I run in a vitual console, at that.... However. from everything I've read on the suprnova forums, you shouldn't be selecting the file from within IE, but rather right-clicking, saving it to disk, and then running the saved torrent file from within your client.

[Room101]

3. I'm selecting the file from within IE

This is what I do on my buddy’s computer.

1- open Azureus
2- right click and open on file(within IE)
3- Azureus then shows the file as seeding or downloading.

I used Linux one time and loved it. Does Linux have a good word processing program like word?

[qnr]

4. OK, I'm sure that does work, but

like I said, all of the posters on the forum recommend that you don't do it that way.

There are many word processors available for Linux. When comparing them to Word, it depends upon the individual. While it's an excellent word processor (and I won't go into the closed source, proprietary format bit) it just tries to do too much at once, in my opinion. It can't make up it's mind whether it wants to be a word processor, DTP program, calculator, graphics manipulation program and so on.

<rant> I don't need all that extra baggage - basically, if I want to read in the bathroom, I'll bring a book in, not install a fully stocked library and printing press in it :) </rant>


http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html will give you some apps to browse. Office >> Office will list more WPs than Office >> Word Processors BTW

[Room101]

5. How would you recommend me doing it?

I, tried to open the URL in Azureus but it did not work.

[qnr]

6. Use IE (or another browser, of course)

Right click over the torrent file you want, select "Save file to disk" or whatever IE uses for that funtion, making sure you know where the torrent file is being saved. Then, inside Azureus, make sure that it knows to scan that particular directory for torrent files. You can then start it directly from Azureus (the torrent file that you downloaded, not the URL).

[Room101]

7. It worked!!!!

THANKS!

[qnr]

8. Probably because I'm sleep-typing

Well, just hold on for a while, a Windows user will probably be around to help in a bit.

Edit: Ah, great :)