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How to download a .torrent file

1. Download uTorrent, which is in my opinion the best .torrent client. Click on the following link and save it to your desktop http://download.utorrent.com/1.6/utorrent.exe

2. Once you have uTorrent on your desktop, open it up by double clicking on it. It will ask you a few questions, one being do you want to make this the default application for handling .torrent files? Select Yes, it will also ask you if you want to create a shortcut on your desktop? Select No (because it’s on your desktop). Also you can click OK on the speed guide screen.

3. Click on this link

4. You browser should ask you what you want to do with the file (save it/open it). Click Open.

5. This should load the .torrent into uTorrent, it will pop-up and ask which files you want to download, by default it will download all files in the .torrent (in this case there is only one)

6. Click OK.

7. The file(s) will now download, so just sit back, relax and wait a while. Sometimes a long while. (To those in the know, yes you should check to make sure the random port can be forwarded back to the computer through NAT router, but in this case it seems a little high-tech)

8. After the file has finished, in the done column it will say Finished/100% (depending on the version of uTorrent) open your My Documents (via the start menu or on the desktop), then open the Downloads folder, there should be a file in there called House MD S03E09 HDTV XviD-XOR.avi (or something similar)

9. Next download Codec Pack all in one (you need a special codec to play the downloaded video) click here

10. Open the file, and install. You won’t be sure of 99% of the options (and I don’t have time to install it). So my advice will be click next, accept license agreement, click next, next, next and finish. (maybe more or less next’s).

11. Once it is installed go back to your My Document\Downloads folder, double click on the the House MD S03E09 HDTV XviD-XOR file, it should load in your default media player (most probably some verion of Windows Media Player)

[Tutorial From my (life) blog, Thanks!]

How to decompress multi-volume RAR archives

1) Install WinRAR (download, web).
2) Open WinRAR and locate the folder where you are storing the downloaded archives.

3) Double click on file with extension .rar. If there isn’t file with extension .rar, try one with extension .r01 or .001.
4) Press “Extract To” button.

5) Select location, in which will be all files extracted. You can achieve this by typing location into “Destination Path” or by clicking through your drives. Press OK.

6) Wait until WinRAR finishes decompressing. You shouldn’t get any other messages if everything is OK.

How to burn .bin/.cue in Nero

When you download some release, its probably packed in some multi-volume archives. After succesful unpacking, you should get .bin (big) and .cue (small) files. This is image of the CD/DVD, and now you need to burn it. Dont be worry about the size of BIN, it may be, and often IS bigger than 700 MB. But it will fit on CD good…
Burning the popular .cue/.bin files is a relatively recent feature of Nero but comes in very handy for users of vcdimager derived software. And as usual with such files burning them is not very difficult.
Before doing anything else you have to verify that the path in the CUE-sheet is correct. A CUE-sheet is a plaintext file describing the structure and the location of the BIN-file. You can open up the .CUE -file using, for example, Notepad.
The file should look something like this:

FILE “IMAGE.BIN” BINARY TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

Start Nero, close Wizard. You don’t have to burn .bin file as normal data.
Select File (Recorder in new versions) – Burn Image.
Choose the Files of Type: dropdown menu and select All Files *.*. Next just locate the .CUE file, select it and click Open. Make sure you select the .CUE -file, not the .BIN -file.

Then select your .cue file.
Now select the write speed and press the Write button to start the burning process. Because you are burning file from your HDD, you can select some high speed (40x – 52x), there is no such risk as inb case of burning On the fly.

How to mount image file in Daemon Tools

What you need: Daemon tools
If you have a large enough Hard Drive that you don’t mind keeping the images on then DAEMON Tools is the best thing.
I also reccommend it so you can test out the images before you burn them to a cd with nero if u decide to for that route.
Nero is however not free. You can download nero for a trial period from here. In this tutorial we will be using Nero version 5.

First off lets take care of a common myth. Lots of people believe that a .cue file is required to make an image.
However this is untrue. A .cue file is usually very small as in under a kb in size and it points the program whether
it be Nero or Daemon tools to the image. Lots of times you will be able to obtain a .cue file very easily and I recommend
getting it if you are able to, but it isn’t required.

DAEMON Tools:

1. Make sure you have Daemon Tools downloaded and installed.
2. Start Daemon Tools and right click on the taksbar icon for it (its a red lightning bolt at first).
3. Now move your mouse up and hover over “Virtual CD/DVD-ROM”.
4. Now hover go to “device 0″ then “Mount Image.” You will see a pop up that asks you to select the image or .cue file. Find it and click open. If the image has autorun on it then it will be like as if you just popped a cd into your computer and it will ask you to install or whatever the image is of. If not you can go through My Computer and right click then go down to explore on the device which has the image mounted to it and then click on setup if it is supposed to install something or open a music file if that is what’s on it whatever.

[Tutorial From Releaslog, Thanks!]