BitTorrent Clients
February 17, 2008
Most people complain that downloading using BitTorrent in the background slows down their PC. This is true to some extent. Generally, it depends on what client you are using. Client like Azureus is based on Java and it takes up alot of memory space; it eats up your system RAM like there is no tommorrow.
Some BitTorrent clients:
µTorrent
Azureus
BitComet
BitLord
BitTornado
G3 Torrent
I have tried various BitTorrent clients, and I found µTorrent the best (screen-shot below). It is light-weight, skinnable and requires no installation; you simply download the executable file from the website, put it in a folder, and run it.
The good thing about µTorrent is that it saves your preferences and data into a file in the folder; it is independent of your system registry and folders. So assuming if you want to format your computer, you need not worry about installing it back and configuring it back. The screenshot below is how my µTorrent folder looks like.
Each of the file serves a purpose, explained below:
µTorrent.exe – the executable file
toolbar.bmp – Skin file
tstatus.bmp – Skin file
dht.dat – uTorrent’s DHT data
resume.dat – your torrent progress
settings.dat – your torrent client preferences
And that is it to your µTorrent client! All in less than 1MB!
P.S. I will discuss more on µTorrent later.
