Hiding µTorrent on Startup (& Locking)

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µTorrent has a Boss-Key feature that can be used to make µTorrent invisible on the desktop. Since I have seen several people ask how to have µTorrent be invisible at startup, I have put together this guide.

First make certain that µTorrent is set to open at Windows start up.
Also make sure to set a Boss-Key.
Both of these settings are in µTorrent at Options>Preferences>General
To set a Boss-Key, a combination of modifier key (Ctrl, Shift or Alt) and the key (numbers, letters or function keys) is used. At default Alt is used. So if you tick in the Boss-Key box and press C, then Alt-C will be the Boss-Key. If you wish to use Shift or Ctrl, then that key and the number/letter must be pressed at the same time after you tick the Boss-Key box. Press OK when through.
Be sure to remember your Boss-Key combination.



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After you have done the above,

Go to Start>Run and type regedit and press OK



You will then see the screen below:



Browse to :

Code:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run

You will then see the µTorrent start up path on this screen
Double-click on the µTorrent entry to amend.



You will then see this screen

Add space then /HIDE to the end of the command. Press OK



Your µTorrent should now start on Windows start up and be invisible.
To have µTorrent be visible, press the Boss-Key combination you chose.

Locking uTorrent

If you also want to lock other users out of µTorrent, just below the BossKey option is an option to set a BossKey password. If enabled and password set, when µTorrent is in BossKey, it will also be locked to those without password. As far as I can tell, the BossKey must be used to enforce the password and lock. Also, this would not prevent another user with access to the operating system from terminating µTorrent in Task Manager.

[Deth93]

Cool. This can be done with BitTorrent as well! Thanks for the tip!