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Bittorent Not Installing

Postby personguy » Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:44 am

I downloaded the official install application. i double click it, and a few seconds later i get a message saying it has installed, and internet explorer opens a donation page for it. but i dont see bittorent anywhere in my start menu. where is it?
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Postby brad » Wed Aug 04, 2004 10:40 am

From:

I've installed BitTorrent, now what? There's no program to run!
"BitTorrent is not like other peer-to-peer applications (such as Winmx, Kazaa, Gnutella, etc.) in that it does not have its own "universe." Put another way, BT lives on top of the Web, which means that all of the searching/listing of available files is done on the web. When you find a file you want to download, you click on it and the BitTorrent client program will run and ask you where to put it, and then start downloading."

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Postby Restek » Wed Aug 04, 2004 10:44 pm

Just in case that little bit of brads explanation missed you, you basically surf for bittorrent links on the web. Click a link on a webpage for a torrent, and it will download with the client program automatically :)
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Postby personguy » Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:38 am

when i click on the link, i get this message:

Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You man not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

Then i tried "save target as", so the torrent file downloaded. when i went to open it though, i got a message saying:

blah blah blah blah.torrent is not a valid win32 application.

any help?
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Postby venney » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:14 pm


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Postby PCguy » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:03 pm

Did you use IE to download the bittorrent client or was it another browser?
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Postby personguy » Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:41 am

im using IE 5
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Postby Jay Smith » Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:49 pm

I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got!

What is a "free" gift ? Aren't all gifts free?

Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?
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Postby venney » Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:03 pm

ok theres a better bit torrent client that ive now found, its called bit tornado, i also hope your pc works with them now, downloads can take a very long time tho!
ive got adsl and i only get uploads of like 10 on big files, cos peopel r stingy and wont share
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allways leave your torrent open until you have a plus or 0 share rate!!!!

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