Utorrent is drastically slowing down my computer...?

Question

I have recently started using utorrent and it is really slow, which I don't really mind, but it is also slowing down everything else...a lot. For instance, my antivirus/spysweeper usually takes about an hour and a half to do a full sweep of my computer. Right now, it is still running and has been for almost 11 hours. Utorrent is affecting everything equally to that. Is this normal and is there anything I can do to either speed up utorrent or increase my computers performance? In case you need this info to help me, I'm currently downloading 6 torrents, 7 are waiting(queued), and 3 are seeding(I have to seed because I am using a private tracker and I have to keep my ratio up so I don't get banned).

Answer 1

Try downloading one torrent at a time. And It is normal that your computer  is slowing down, and also it may be because of your internet speed, or you go over your monthly usage.

Answer 2

Hiya

May I ask what anti-virus are you using?  Is it Avast? because if it is this may be your problem.  This can be caused by Avast!'s P2P shield, which scans P2P apps. Disabling this option will fix your problem.

Here's step-by-step instructions on disabling the P2P shield (thanks to scarface_666):

    * Double click the left mouse button on your Avast! icon in the system tray (to the left of the system clock) and your On-Access Scanner will open in a separate window. If you don't see the icon, click on the arrow and it should expand to show all the icons in the system tray.

    * Click the left mouse button on the "Details >>" button at the bottom of the Avast On-Access Scanner to open up more options.

    * Look for the P2P Shield on the left of you On-Access Scanner window and left click your mouse button on it and the P2P Shield should now be highlighted.

    * Now click your left mouse button on the "Terminate" Button (Located on the right of the On-Access Scanner window) and you should see some text near the top of the window saying "No task is currently using this provider".

    * Finally, click the "OK" Button and the bottom right of the On-Access Scanner window and the P2P shield will be disabled.

Alternatively, Avast! has a Customize option button besides the Sensitivity slider bar. You can exclude programs from the P2P shield in there. Excluding utorrent.exe may also solve the problem.

Spyware Doctor 5 causes µTorrent to freeze when installed. The only fix is to uninstall it, or roll back to version 4 of Spyware Doctor.

Hope this helps! :-)

EDIT - I also agree with the answer above, try dl one at a time & see how it goes, also try not to have other programs like msn etc open!

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Have a browse through this, I think it will help you! http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?...

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