µTorrent – download your torrents

These days, you can’t decide on which download manager to use. Each one has its own weak and strong points. Some of the most known are BitTorrent, BitTornado, Azureus, Tomato Torrent (for MAC OS X), ABC, but the most widely used, as proclaimed in 2008, is µTorrent.

This simple, yet powerful piece of software occupies less than 200kB and uses approximately 8MB RAM memory in order to function properly. Its easy-to-use interface lets you manage multiple torrents simultaneously, changing their labels and even their bandwidth allocation. This freeware even fulfills the role of an RSS downloader.

There are many language packs and skins with which you can play with, just visit their website.

New attributes in µTorrent 1.7.7:

• Full Vista support!
• Local peer discovery
• Fixes and numerous enhancements

Update: µTorrent 1.8 has been released. Here are the major improvements and features:

• Teredo (tunneling protocol)
• IPv6 support
• Additional fixes, changes, enhancements

Update: A newer version (1.8.1) of µTorrent is available. Here are some changes:

• A common crash bug on Vista has been fixed
• The issue with all trackers going offline after a few hours for no apparent reason has been fixed.
• Incorrect out of disk space errors on NTFS partitions have been fixed
• The bug in NOD32’s IMON that caused HTTP 400 errors has been worked around

Download µTorrent now – It’s Free

Available for Wine, Windows 95 (Winsock2), 98/ME, NT/2000, XP, 2003 and Vista

Download µTorrent 1.8.1 Stable (263kb)