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How-To: Use uTorrent from a Flash Drive

by Omni on Feb.15, 2010, under How-To Guides, Useful Programs


Sometimes, you may want to be able to take your torrenting capabilities along with you. There’s an easy way to do this – and the program itself is barely 1 mb! You can keep torrents, keep partially completed downloads (assuming your flash drive is large enough), or whatever, all in your thumb drive. To find out how to do this, keep reading.

  1. Go to the uTorrent Portable Apps webpage and download the exe.
  2. Copy it (or save it directly) to your flash drive.
  3. You’re done! You should now be able to just plug your flash drive into any Windows based computer and run uTorrent on it.

Best of all, you can choose where you want to download the torrent on the local computer that you’re using (which basically means you don’t have to download everything onto your flash drive). This is the most handy when you have access to a computer that you aren’t allowed to install new programs on. Since this technique isn’t installing anything new, it should be able to work almost all the time. The only thing you have to watch out for is router or firewall configurations that may block torrents.



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