Method 2: Unchecking the read-only property of the download folder Now start the client and see if the error is gone or not. Also, click on the “ Run this Program in compatibility mode for” option and select “Service Pack 3” from the dropdown.Tick the Run this program as an administrator tick-box Go into the Compatibility tab and check the Run this program as an administrator tick box.Now once you are in the root directory of uTorrent, right-click on the uTorrent.exe and click Properties.
Right-click on the uTorrent’s shortcut and again click on Open file location.This will take you to the uTorrent’s shortcut folder. Once it appears in the search, right-click on it and open its file location by clicking on Open file location.Open the Start menu and search for uTorrent.
To permanently run it as an administrator, before continuing, make sure you have set up your account as an administrator. To fix this you could just run it as an administrator, but then you would have to run it as administrator every time you start it.
In most cases, the “access is denied” error is caused because the uTorrent doesn’t have the required privileges. In order for an application to work properly on windows, it must be granted administrative privileges. Method 1: Granting administrative privileges to uTorrent Not to worry, the following methods will allow you to find and fix the cause of this problem. Some users got the problem fixed when they tried resetting the download location through the uTorrent client. An internal bug that stops the download: There are some chances that a bug in the uTorrent is responsible for this behavior.
To fix these issues you would either have to remove the read-only property of that folder or just create a new folder and download your torrents there.