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Windows would not update. It was two major updates behind. I used the upgrade utility to finally upgrade. Now, magnet links will not open. All browsers, they do not open. Latest version of Windows and qBittorrent.

Go to settings and check .torrent and .magnet associations within qBittorrent.

And then?

[quote="magnetlinks"]And then?[/quote]
And then tick both boxes.
And then click Apply:



And then click OK.
And then check if it worked or not.
And then scream if it didn't.

All steps completed. Now what?

[quote="magnetlinks"] Now what?[/quote]
I don't hear screaming, so maybe take things easy & put your feet up. Relax with a cup of tea and a chocolate digestive or two.

What is the reccomended amount of decibels?

[quote="magnetlinks"]What is the reccomended amount of decibels?[/quote]
140dB normally does the trick. So it didn't work, huh? That's a pain.
Until you get a solution, here's a workaround...
Right-click>Copy (on a magnet link).
Click qBittorrent's Add Torrent Link Icon.
Then right-click>Paste (it into the dialog box).
Click Download.

I've been doing that, but it defeats the purpose of a hyperlink.

As for the decibels I have no way of measuring, so I need to buy some sort of device on Amazon to measure.

Any recommendations?

[quote="magnetlinks"]I've been doing that, but it defeats the purpose of a hyperlink.[/quote]
Have you tried re-installing qBittorrent?
If the option is available, try associating with magnet & torrent files that way to see if that solves the problem.

Yes, I reinstalled it. A few times. One time I did not check the association box at install, then a message came up asking me if I wanted to associate the links when I started qBittorent up. Clicking it that way still did not associate them.

In Chrome, no error message is displayed.

In Firefox, it says there is no associated application for the link, and asks me to associate one. If I remember correctly, it then sends me to the Windows default application settings, but there is no magnet tab or qBittorrent tab.

[quote="magnetlinks"]In Firefox, it says there is no associated application for the link, and asks me to associate one. If I remember correctly, it then sends me to the Windows default application settings, but there is no magnet tab or qBittorrent tab.[/quote]
In Firefox, although I'm using 52.9.0 ESR, under Options>Applications you would only find magnet & TORRENT file listed in relation to Torrent clients. There won't be a qBittorrent tab.
But if there is a TORRENT file option, you could try clicking on that to select a default application

If you're still making no headway: do you have any other torrent clients on you system that have taken over magnet or torrent associations?

I didn't know that was a thing in Firefox. I clicked to change it and it said there were no apps. Then I clicked something else I don't remember and I manually searched for qBittorrent and it worked.

Still didn't work in Chrome.

So, I went to the registry, searched for magnet, and deleted a whole bunch of keys with the word magnet in it.

Now, it works!

Thanks for pointing out the Firefox thing, that led me to searching the registry for some reason. Which I did before, but just didn't delete anything.

[quote="magnetlinks"]Now, it works![/quote]
That's great

Hey, I had the same problem and saw this thread, but

So, I went to the registry, searched for magnet, and deleted a whole bunch of keys with the word magnet in it.

wasn't really specific enough for me to solve the issue

What worked for me is https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/2517

In case that issue is not available in the future, I will paste the text here, just note that all further text isn't from me, but from github

add qBittorrent to windows PC Settings/Search and apps/Defaults https://www.dropbox.com/s/hty3h2yyt4gtm ... 1.png?dl=0 with these values. notice that magnet use the app icon 0. torrent use the file icon 1

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.magnet]
@="URL:magnet"
"Content Type"="application/x-magnet"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.magnet\DefaultIcon]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\qBittorrent\\qbittorrent.exe\",0"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.magnet\shell]
@="open"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.magnet\shell\open]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.magnet\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\qBittorrent\\qbittorrent.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.torrent]
"Content Type"="application/x-bittorrent"
@="Torrent file"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.torrent\DefaultIcon]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\qBittorrent\\qbittorrent.exe\",1"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.torrent\shell]
@="open"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.torrent\shell\open]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\qBittorrent.torrent\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\qBittorrent\\qbittorrent.exe\" \"%1\""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications]
"qBittorrent"="Software\\qBittorrent\\Capabilities"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\qBittorrent]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\qBittorrent\Capabilities]
"ApplicationIcon"="C:\\Program Files\\qBittorrent\\qbittorrent.exe,1"
"ApplicationName"="qBittorrent"
"ApplicationDescription"="Torrent downloader"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\qBittorrent\Capabilities\URLAssociations]
"magnet"="qBittorrent.magnet"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\qBittorrent\Capabilities\FileAssociations]
".torrent"="qBittorrent.torrent"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\qBittorrent\shell]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\qBittorrent\shell\open]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\qBittorrent\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\qBittorrent\\qbittorrent.exe\""

workaround is uninstall capable apps

the workaround to open magnets with qBittorrent until we fix this is to uninstall the magnet capable apps because HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\magnet is ignored if there's a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\magnet key