How to Download With uTorrent

This wikiHow teaches you how to download BitTorrent files with uTorrent, a free torrent program. Before you download anything through uTorrent, you may want to set up protocol encryption, which ensures that your uTorrent program's connection to a torrent's server is secure. Keep in mind that downloading copyright-protected content for which you haven't paid for is internet piracy as well as copyright infringement and can be prosecuted with harsh federal penalties.

Part1
Enabling Protocol Encryption

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Open uTorrent. This app resembles a white "µ" on a lime-green background. The uTorrent window will open.
- If you don't yet have uTorrent, you can download it for free from the uTorrent website at https://www.utorrent.com/
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Click Options (Windows) or uTorrent (Mac). It's in the upper-left side of the uTorrent window. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Click Preferences. This option is near the top of the drop-down menu. Clicking it opens the Preferences window.
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Click the BitTorrent tab. You'll find this on the left side of the Preferences window (Windows) or at the top of the Preferences window (Mac).
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Click the "Protocol Encryption" drop-down box. This box is near the bottom of the Preferences window. It will have "Disabled" written in it. Clicking it prompts a drop-down menu.
- On Mac, there is no drop-down menu, instead, look for the "Outgoing Encryption" section at the bottom of the window.
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Click Enabled or Forced. Doing so will turn on protocol encryption for anything that you download through uTorrent.
- Selecting Forced will make your connection more consistently secure, but it may also result in a slower download speed or choppy connection at times.
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Click Apply, then click OK. Both options are at the bottom of the window. This will save your changes. You can now proceed with downloading a torrent of your choice and using it with uTorrent to download the torrent's files.
- On a Mac, the settings are saved automatically, so just click the red circle in the top-left corner of the window instead

Part2
Downloading with uTorrent utorrent download

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Find a torrent to download. A torrent is a file that you open in a torrent client (in this case, uTorrent) in order to download the torrent's linked files (e.g., movies, game files, PDFs, etc.). To find the torrent that you want to download, go to a torrent site that you trust and search for the torrent that you want to download.
- If you don't have a trusted torrent search site, type the name of what you want to download followed by "torrent" and the current year (e.g., "2017") into a search engine and press ↵ Enter.
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Download the torrent file. Click the Download button on your preferred site, then wait for the torrent to finish downloading. Keep in mind that the Download button will differ in appearance from site to site—in some cases, it might even be a downward-facing arrow instead of a word.
- Since torrent files are little more than links to files that are stored online, the torrent file itself shouldn't take more than a few seconds to download.
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Double-click the torrent file. When you installed uTorrent, it should be been installed as your computer's default torrent client; therefore, double-clicking a torrent file will open the torrent in uTorrent.
- If uTorrent isn't your default torrent client, click File in the upper-left corner of uTorrent (Windows) or the screen while uTorrent is open (Mac), click Add Torrent..., select your torrent in the window, and click Open.
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Click OK when prompted. It's at the bottom of the options window.
- You can also review the torrent's download information here, including which of the files you want to download and which folder (e.g., Downloads) you want to download the files to.
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Wait for your torrent's files to begin downloading. Once you see "Downloading 0.0%" on the torrent's name in the uTorrent window, the torrent's files are officially downloading.
- It may take a few minutes for the torrent to get up to full download speed.
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Let the torrent seed after it finishes downloading. "Seeds" are people who have downloaded the torrent's contents and are now uploading that information to the Internet; because of seeds, you can download files through uTorrent. It's considered common courtesy to seed for at least as long as you downloaded in order to give back to the community.
- Torrents will seed automatically after the files have downloaded.