This one is for Google.

Are you having trouble downloading torrents on a computer running Windows Vista? You are? WOW! Good thing I have wrote this quick post.

I use uTorrent, and the first time I used it on my Vista machine, it worked fine, then the next time I ran it I got "Access Denied" messages, despite having all my ports open and what not.

One thing that the "Forums" and "Help sites" fail to ask. What version of Windows are you using?

If you are using XP, well fuck off, it should be working. Vista? Well you are in luck. Hopefully.

Assuming you have tried all the other "fixes" that the various sites on the intertubes have been spruking, you can always try this one.

Run as Administrator.

Now, I will assume that you are a computer n00b that just bought a PC/Laptop with Vista already installed, and have no idea on what I just mentioned.

Vista is the latest version of Windows (that comes in several tastes), that has what I call a "N00b protector" built in. What this is, is a series of pop-ups, and non-pop-ups, that like to double check to see if the user really knows what they are doing, and if they really want to do it. Like viewing the source code for a website from Internet Explorer in Notepad will bring up a "Do you want to really do this" message.

Sometimes this could be great, but its the pop-ups that don't pop-up that are annoying.

Take uTorrent for example. This should have a "You need to run this as Administrator" message, but it doesn't. Not doing so will cause it to fail in the task of saving downloaded data.

Now assuming that you have got this far, you are a Computer N00b, and have been pwned by Vista again. So this is what you do to get it to work.

Find the Icon for uTorrent in the Start Menu. Right click on it to bring up a sub-menu, then select "Run as Administrator". Simple.

You will need to do this everytime you run uTorrent.