μTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in μTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, μTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange. μTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 220 KB in size.
Features:
* Multiple simultaneous downloads
* Configurable bandwidth scheduler
* Global and per-torrent speed limiting
* Quick-resumes interrupted transfers
* RSS Downloader
* Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)
Although compact and resource-friendly, μTorrent does not skimp on features, with a feature set that rivals those of larger clients, such as Azureus, BitComet, and BitTornado. μTorrent's more notable features include:
Bandwidth limiter (automatic and manual)
Customizable interface
Disk Cache system
Distributed Hash Table (DHT) support
Download bar
Download scheduler
Embedded tracker
HTTPS tracker support
Initial Seeding (Super Seeding)
IP Blocklist support
Localization
Multi-scrape support
Multi-torrent interface
NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) support
Peer Exchange
Protocol Encryption
Proxy support
RSS "Broadcatching"
Search bar
Selective file downloading
Tetris (Easter Egg)
Unicode support
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support
Web Interface
Web Seeding support
2007-11-15: Version 1.8 alpha (build 6171)
- Change: Adding trackers via RSS autodownload does not override original label
- Change: Help option in Help menu now downloads and displays utorrent .chm manual instead of launching online FAQ
- Fix: extremely rare and extremely old crash bug with timing out disk jobs
