Two Bittorrent clients on one computer?

[MistahMan]

Is it ok or could it cause problems? I have both Bittorrent 3.3 and Shadow experimental.

[hawkburn]

Its fine.. I have 4 on mine with no problems :)

[MistahMan]

Its fine.. I have 4 on mine with no problems :)

But if I have two or more on the computer and I go to for example, Suprnova and try to get a file, how do I know which will kick in?

[ferrarimodena360]

But if I have two or more on the computer and I go to for example, Suprnova and try to get a file, how do I know which will kick in?

instead doing a left click on the link, do a right click>save target as....

now the icon of the file represents which is your default download pgm for torrent, which by the way will catch the link if you do a normal left click

now hold down the shift button and right clik on the saved file, chose open with and browse to the torrent pgm of your choice..

if u want to change the default pgm for torrents you can do so thru folder options>file types , the extension here is obviously torrents

and you can try n disable options "make the pgm default client", like for eg shareaza has option of catck torrent clicks, u can uncheck this, but if u open a torrent file with shareaza (open with option), shareaza will download nonetheless

hope this was helpful

[hawkburn]

When I used Shareaza, I dont anymore, and for the reason I will state, it always kept itself as the default client, whether it be ed2k, gnutella, or BT, even though I told it not to, and manually set something else to that association.

An alternative to the above users explanation, if you cant figure it out for some reason, is to 1.) Right click the file and save it to a location you will remember.. 2.) Open that location and find the file. 3) Right click the file and choose Open With>Choose Program. Then select your program and check the box.. "Always use the selected program to open this type of file"

This is for Windows XP by the way.

[Malicious Intent]

instead doing a left click on the link, do a right click>save target as....

now the icon of the file represents which is your default download pgm for torrent, which by the way will catch the link if you do a normal left click

now hold down the shift button and right clik on the saved file, chose open with and browse to the torrent pgm of your choice..

if u want to change the default pgm for torrents you can do so thru folder options>file types , the extension here is obviously torrents

and you can try n disable options "make the pgm default client", like for eg shareaza has option of catck torrent clicks, u can uncheck this, but if u open a torrent file with shareaza (open with option), shareaza will download nonetheless

hope this was helpful

I second this.

[MistahMan]

Its fine.. I have 4 on mine with no problems :)

Thanks for the answer. The reason I asked is cause the creator of Shadow's experimental Bt client told me it's better not to have more than one on the computer tho he never specified why.

[MistahMan]

instead doing a left click on the link, do a right click>save target as....

now the icon of the file represents which is your default download pgm for torrent, which by the way will catch the link if you do a normal left click

now hold down the shift button and right clik on the saved file, chose open with and browse to the torrent pgm of your choice..

if u want to change the default pgm for torrents you can do so thru folder options>file types , the extension here is obviously torrents

and you can try n disable options "make the pgm default client", like for eg shareaza has option of catck torrent clicks, u can uncheck this, but if u open a torrent file with shareaza (open with option), shareaza will download nonetheless

hope this was helpful

It was. Which brings me to my next question. Which client is the best right now?

[ferrarimodena360]

i have tried
shareaza
orignal bt
bt++
shadows
abc
azureus

best is shareaza, and abc, i hated azureus coz it hogs onto reources

[YWD67]

I am a Shadow man myself. Downloaded a 2120.5 mb file in 4 hrs. running at 175kbs. I have no problem with that.

[hawkburn]

I prefer Azureus. It takes RAM.. but thats one resource I have a lot of. It only hogs CPU on versions below 2.0.7.1 CVS (2.0.7.0 and lower) and now with 2.0.8.0 I think it's great.

[Star Guitar]

I've been happy with the Burst client for some time now, but recently, I've been playing with Azureus. It gives you so much data on your torrents that its kind of like infoporn (Yay!)

Here's a question, which other clients besides Azureus allow you to download only certain files within a torrent?

[MistahMan]

instead doing a left click on the link, do a right click>save target as....

now the icon of the file represents which is your default download pgm for torrent, which by the way will catch the link if you do a normal left click

now hold down the shift button and right clik on the saved file, chose open with and browse to the torrent pgm of your choice..

if u want to change the default pgm for torrents you can do so thru folder options>file types , the extension here is obviously torrents

and you can try n disable options "make the pgm default client", like for eg shareaza has option of catck torrent clicks, u can uncheck this, but if u open a torrent file with shareaza (open with option), shareaza will download nonetheless

hope this was helpful


I've tried this and tho I have both Bit torrent from Bram Cohen (3.4) and Bit tornado, I only see Bit tornado as a possible client to open with. Is it cause both are too similar?

[ccc1005]

Here's a question, which other clients besides Azureus allow you to download only certain files within a torrent?
I sure havent heard of any others. And those of you saying Azureus is a resource hog, just try Shareaza, I was getting 80% CPU with an athlon 3000+ and 1GB of RAM, now THAT is resource hogging.

I guess for those with older computers Azureus might be taxing on the system, but it definately has the best features of any Bittorrent client out there.

[MushroomheadXIII]

ccc1005 is right, shareaza does take up a shitload of cpu but still, its good, i prefer it over any other bittorrent client because it has the ability to search more sources which often works

[TheChief]

I have Shareaza and Azureus. I like Azureus the best but Shareaza took over as the default programm. Anyone know if this can be reversed in either of the clients settings?

[Miniver]

just uninstall and then reinstall azureus should be fine then

[ccc1005]

i prefer it over any other bittorrent client because it has the ability to search more sources which often worksWell in fact Azureus can search for more sources, using the Update Tracker button.

I like Azureus the best but Shareaza took over as the default programm.
And thats another reason why i got rid if Shareaza, I HATE programs that take the file associations automatically without asking.