What's a "torrent"?

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Thank you. With the clues of all these post, the “geeky” stage seems less unworkable. It is a challenge for me. My new hobby to uncover the salutations of file distribution.

I have donloaded some torrent files.....
What should I do now????
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You need to download a program like Winrar to read your files after you download them from your bittorrent (ie. utorrent). Winrar will extract them. Then, you can use them. Enjoy. To put them onto dvd's, you need to download another program to convert the file into a DVD. I tried WinAvi and it didn't work. I am now using ConvertXtoDVD and it works great. Have fun

I find checking the downloads before unpacking them with WinRar is useless. The infections are archived into an otherwise legitimate file an go undetected until unpacked.

I'm curious why you would recommend a BitTorrent client that uses Adware, when there are so many other clients that are free, without adware? btw, Azureus is now called Vuse.

a great, simple to use program with FLAC files that are often downloaded with torrents to convert them to usable files is called Traders Little Helper. look for it in Google or similr search.

as to infected files in zip or rar form, Norton Internet Security 2009 which I use can scan those types of files previous to unpacking. I can't speak for other anti viral programs having that ability because I haven't tried all that many.

I ordered a disc from ebay that had daemon lite tools (4.12.2) and a winrar file. I finally figured out how to mount the images that I recieved on disc (Spanish latin america ver 3 lessons 1, 2, and 3) to the daemon and get them to work proper on my Rosetta (and yes I put the patch/hack in the rs folder so that I can use all of the lessons w/o activation. I am a computer idiot. I went to pirates bay and tried to download the torrents to the other languages and even though it said the file was like 16 gig it only took a couple of seconds and I dont know what to do. I really dont know how to get the languages I want to turn into an iso file so that I can mount it. Please help. I am a disabled marine without a lot of money. I dont get out of the house much anymore so I just try to keep my mind occupied with learning new languages. I was never trained in anything like this (damn 5711 (that was my mos)). Please someone help with detailed instructions. Or you could email me at with your phone number and I can call. I need help. If there are any Devil Dogs out there that can help I implore you do. Thank you for your time.

What does it mean when a file seems to say its seeding; but when I go into my BitClient it is really slow or is not available? I found a few file like that but found it was still downloading after several hours?? Is it my connection speed or just the availability of the files?? Just curious thanks??

I downloaded a 753mb movie from bittorrent & it downloaded it as a RAR file & having problems using a freware program called dvdconvert software to convert it to dvd format.
Its all so confusing & not having mush success.

Wait i don't get this. I've downloaded bitcomet and winrar and my torrent file has finished downloading, but now it doesnt seem to be doing anything. It says uploading at 100%, but other than that it isn't doing anything, help plz. ive been wanting to download this for ages now =(

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