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    shareaza stealing .torrent associations

    as title says, shareaza is stealing the .torrent file association. bittornado USED to have it but now shareaza does. and yes, ive unchecked .torrent file association in in the "web" section. is there something i missed?

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    Did you make sure that bittornnado had them checked again. I don't know what it does actually for picking back up associations, but I know that in azureus I had to tell it to be the defualt one again since it didn't ask at startup. I suppose you could simply open up folder options/file types and associate torrents with bittornado again.

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    If you are using Windows XP (and possibly others), open any folder, click on tools, folder options, file types tab, and check to make sure shareaza doesn't still have the torrent association there. If it does, you can change it that way.
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    i'm a beginner.....what do you mean "you can change it that way" if i see "a torrent association" please tell me exactly what to do. i can follow instructions even if i don't know what the hell it all means! thanks

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    He means you can manually change it instead of having it done by the program. it's a lot easier and probably safer for your associations if you just have your program do it for you.

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    as you steal songs, your worried shareaza is stealing torrent associations. I GOt to wonder aboucha =) Hey what i do is open up shadowexperiment, and load the torrent file there. Its a hassle since you really want to click on the torrent and load up the bit-torrent program to download. Shareaza is a resource hog and has a bit to load up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ohbanyan
    i'm a beginner.....what do you mean "you can change it that way" if i see "a torrent association" please tell me exactly what to do. i can follow instructions even if i don't know what the hell it all means! thanks
    Once you're in the folder options of any folder (see my above post on how to get there), click the file types tab. You should see a large list of extensions and their associated program in alphabetical order. Go down to torrent and click on it and then click the change button below. It should bring you to an 'open with' window; click browse. Select the bittornado exe (probably C:\program files\bittornado\bittornado.exe) and you're good to go.
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    If that did not help
    here is how to do it in XP
    http://support.microsoft.com/default...307859&sd=tech
    And here in win2k
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320033

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