Backdoor ways to maximise a program

[Kinoko]

Okay, I'm so sorry to start a topic about this but I have nowhere else to ask. I'm downloading some torrents with ABC (strictly for back-up purposes ^_-) and left the laptop on to continue downloading while I went to lunch for an hour. ABC was minimised into the system tray.

Now, everything is working fine, except  I can't bring ABC back up. It's still working, still downloading, but double clicking on the icon does nothing. I tried opening the program again (in this programs case, that would usually result in the currently open copy just appearing on the screen) and nothing again.

Is there some other way I can maximise this program? I can't right click on the icon either. I really, really don't wanna have to shut the lappy down without stopping the downloads properly.

[modgeulator]

I guess you've tried this already, but you can't just switch to it by bringing up the task manager (ctrl-alt-del)?

[Kinoko]

Since it's a minimised task, it doesnt appear in the "Applications" tab, only "processes"... if I can bring it up from there, I'm afraid I don't know how.

[Elliott Hird]

People these days...

You might be able to ALT+TAB to it, maybe. Sometimes it appears there.

[Kinoko]

Nope, first thing I tried, it doesnt appear because it isn't currently maximised... guess I should have mentioned I have tried both of those things.

[scotch]

I can't think of a way. Killing the program certainly won't cause any damage to your downloads though, torrents work a bit differently to normal downloads, they are downloaded in chunks of usually 128kb-2mb or so, each chunk is checked against a hash in the torrent file to check it is intact, when you restart a torrent the program just checks what chunks are there and downloads the data that is missing or corrupt.  The only annoying thing is waiting for the download to get back up to speed, that all depends on how good the torrent is.

[Kinoko]

Ah... I thought it was dangerous not to 'stop' them before shutting the program.

Guess I'll restart then, wish me luck!

EDIT: Excellent, seems to be okay! I won't know for sure until I finish downloading and see that the files work properly but so far... it's looking good. Thanks!

[Squinky]

I've had lots of wonky problems with ABC. Most of the time I have to uninstall and re-install the weird thing, it'll work good for awhile and then it starts not coming up like you said and other similair problems.

It's a good programm though, pretty sure its free of addware/spyware, and it would be hard to find a replacement that could boast of that.

[Ozzie]

Well, I use BitComet....not as slow as Azureus (actually pretty fast) and without any maximizing problems.....

[LGM]

uTorrent is really small and really fast. I suggest using it in case you were ever looking for an alternative.

[auhsor]

uTorrent is really small and really fast. I suggest using it in case you were ever looking for an alternative.

Agreed! It is like only 96 kB and uses an average of maybe 6 MB of memory. It's developing pretty fast and it's just nice.