I switched to Windows 7 earlier today and have started to install most of the computer programs that I work regularly with. One of the programs was the Bittorrent client uTorrent which caused a strange problem. After configuring the new port forwarding rules it would start downloading and seeding the data as usual but would display the error message “Error: Access is Denied” for every torrent that was still downloading parts of the file.
My initial though was that it was either a rights-issue or a read-only flag that was preventing the writing of the data to the hard drive. Both assumptions did not turn out to be true however.
It seems that uTorrent is having compatibility issues with Windows 7. The easiest way to fix those is to run uTorrent in compatibility mode. This can be done by right-clicking the uTorrent.exe file and selecting Properties from the menu. This opens the file properties with a compatibility tab at the top.
Checking the “Run this program in compatibility mode for” will make the application run in the selected compatibility mode. I have selected Windows XP (Service Pack 3) which is working fine. Others might be working as well but this has not been tested.
A click on Apply and Ok will close the window. The program will be launched from then on in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode which gets rid of the error message for now.
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I’m not having access denied issues with uTorrent (fairly recent version, but maybe not “latest & greatest”) under Win7, but I *am* having troubles running the Wubi installer for Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, and by trouble I mean that I get “access denied” errors when I try to install from the ISO, and it simply fails when it downloads the latest edition (which takes quite a while, lemme just say).
Of course, I’m still running my Win7 RTM that I downloaded from MSDN, and Ubuntu 9.10 isn’t out yet AND I’m doing both on a netbook, so I’m sorta pushing the limits of what *should* be simple. :)
maybe it just u, because I’ve got it running normally.
That’s definitely very strange. I have not had a single problem with uTorrent on Windows 7 in at least 10 months. Maybe it’s your install of Windows 7 and not actually a problem with uTorrent.
I’ve been running W7 since Beta and have had no problems at all with utorrent.
+1 for having no trouble at all. No problems with uTorrent and 7 since the early betas up to my fresh installed 7 Home Premium – never had to adjust compatibility before. I’m currently running 1.8.5 (build 16977).
Add another one – to having no problems with uTorrent and Win7 at all – and have run the beta to RTM versions – all worked fine.
Do you have the preview function on in the Windows Explorer? I find this gives me access issues with Office 2007 documents. Maybe there is something similar that Win7 is doing here.
I’ve never had compatibility problems with µTorrent..
it may be that your download folder location is giving you the issue
Strange, i’ve been running utorrent on Windows 7 beta, RC & now on the final release. Never had this problem. Don’t this it’s an issue with 7. It’s something to do with the local pc.
Maybe is just you. I also have it runing normaly in Windows 7 x64
I have been using uTorrent since the Beta version of Windows7 ant it worked just fine. Yesterday I installed Windows 7 Professional (clean and legit… for 30 days), and I got the access denied error in uTorrent. The thing is, you have to set permissions on all folders of the other partitions (full access). That does the trick. For example, if your downloading folder is E:Downloads, you have to go to that folder, right-click it, go to Properties, select Security tab, select Everyone and hit the Edit button. There you just tap The Full Control and OK.
P.S. excuse my english, I’m not a native speaker
I also recently upgraded from Windows Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional and got this ‘access denied’ problem. Instead of using the workaround posed by this article, the way to actually fix it is to correct permissions as someone else has already mentioned. To set up permissions:
right click on a drive where you are currently downloading to (i.e., D:, E:) that is NOT your system drive (usually C:)
click ‘properties’
click the ‘security’ tab
click ‘advanced’
click ‘change permissions’
select your name (or whatever account you run utorrent)
check the box that says ‘Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object’
click ‘apply’
Do this for every non-system drive that you download to.
Yeah!! Thanks Mate!! This error was driving me crazy.
Thanks for this seems to have fixed my problem. I had been using uTorrent for a couple weeks now on Windows 7 Professional then all of a sudden I started getting this error. I have been downloading some other proggies and thought to run them in compatibility mode but didnt think to do that since it was working all this time. Thanks again!
thanks poster, you did it, im so proud
This fixed my issue. I’ve actually had another issue where any attempt to open a .torrent file would result in an error message saying that uTorrent was already running and it couldn’t open it.
Amazing how OS emulation solved this issue.
Cheers mate.
Here!
y didnt i think of this!!! Thanks a lot!!!
Run uTorrent as Administrator. Do this by right clicking uTorrent icon and click on “run as Administrator” in the dialogue box. Voila!
All hail the man! Dude, you just solved my problem.
hiya
am having some proms regarding windows 7 and utorrent – i keep getting the msg Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another priocess – i can download fron some sites and not others – some say that the DHT and Local Peer Discovery and Peer Exchange are not allowed whereas some others are fine – any suggestions plz
Thanks. solved my problem.
Thanks! I changed compatibility, and it works great. But I love Windows 7, so stop dis’ing. Vista was great too. But Windows 7 makes me a better pirate
I’ve had this problem with windows 7 Ultimate it seems its an issue with the ultimate edition there is some stupid addition to it that’s screwing things up a bit
i’ve been having this issue too. i’ll go away from the computer, come back, and my computer is in sleep mode. when i wake it up, it says it has recoverd from an error, blah blah blah, and when i go to start my torrents back up, i’ve gotten this error. hope your fix works.
hey guys,
I just updated my Windows 7 from RC to the full copy and experienced the same problem with utorrent.
Changed to XP compatible and it works fine now…..wierd!
Hey Guys,
I switched to Windows 7 a few weeks ago and I got this issue this morning. I thought it was something I had done with network sharing. lol.
This fix worked instantly for me. Don’t know why it suddenly happened. I hadn’t even shut off the PC in the intermitent time.
Thanks a million,
Still won’t work with mine, Once I get anything at 1.2%, It stops.
Good News guys! i got the reason why ” access is denied” by u torrent …its not due to ISP neither due to any firewall program ….its is only due to your destination folder hacked…
Reason::..the folder wher you usually place torrent downloads…that folder is shared automatically by unknow user ….and it does not let you write this ..
Solution:…try to download files using different drives or folder…it should work if it is the case….copy all the data from the folder which is hacked and then delete that folder…conclusion is ” download in a new folder and see …it should work….
Hello,
i am from germany
found your website with google
and like to say thank you
had same problem
3 torrent running
1 not
your solutions works.
thanks again