Problems With Downloading.

[Mickey.]

Hello!

 

 

Today, I wanted to go download some music. When I went on the site, to download some of it, the magnet links they have there, didn't work, they just did not respond, even not an error. So, I did the trick my friend told me to, and it actually wanted to start downloading it, but Windows flew in with the bullshit rocket, telling to me that Windows cannot find the .torrent extension´, and offered me a list of programs, which would I like to open it with. So, euhm, I clicked on Browse, hooked up BitTorrent (exe file, obviously.), and it didn't show up in the list, no responding either. So I tried the second trick I found via Google, to right click on the magnet link, and copy the URL into the BitTorrent thingy, which where you can start downloading via URL. Yay, it started, but it was slow as phuck, 5kbps :s

 

If you had any experience with these kind of errors, please tell me, how to fix it, it is really annoying.

 

Thank you in advance,

Mickey

[Harold Feit]

Using what browser?

Did you associate BitTorrent with .torrent files and magnets?

[Mickey.]

I am using Google Chrome, I tried to download them with Internet Explorer also, gives the same answers.

How can I do that?

[Harold Feit]

In the main preferences of BitTorrent (Preferences - General)

Associate with torrent files.

[Mickey.]

Did it, no result, still the same.

[Harold Feit]

A lot of this sounds like the torrent and magnet associations in your folder options and in chrome need to be reset.

http://mywindows8.org/fix-file-associations-in-windows-8/

There are other more advanced methods that involve registry editing, but doing those can cause major problems if you misclick.

[Mickey.]

Euhm, I followed it, and BitTorrent didn't appear in the lists, nor did the .torrent extension :/

[Harold Feit]

You might need to run BitTorrent as administrator to assign the associations then. Exit it completely, run it as administrator, use the associate with .torrent files, then exit and restart it.

[Mickey.]

Still the same thing, choose the program you want to open the file with.

 

At the moment, the only way I could actually start downloading the torrent, to make this error appear, is the torrents.<torrent link here, without the /torrent/>

 

 

I can start downloading torrents via copy-pasting the URL of the magnet link into the bar, where BitTorrent wants me to put it, but it's slow, 20kbps maximum.