Windows update opening uTorrent

[Rev+]

There's a Windows update filtering through that involves updating Edge, everyone's favourite browser.  It involves a full restart, after which it obnoxiously crows about how great Edge is until you shut the thing down.  For both myself and someone I know, this has also involved it starting up uTorrent and having that front-and-centre on the screen while you panic and shut it off because you don't have Peerblock or anything running.

Anyone else had this?  My suspicion is that they're being sneaky bastards and looking for installed torrent clients to deliver their updates, then just not cleaning up after themselves.

[Sebastian Cobb]

It's been a while since I've used windows but usually you can disable this by winkey+R 'msconfig' and unchecking it in the startup services.

I think uTorrent got all bloated and shit after it changed hands years ago? qBittorrent is like what uTorrent used to be like before that.