The µTorrent tray icon gives you a brief overview of your torrent jobs. Placing the mouse cursor over the tray icon will show a tooltip where you can view the total number of torrent jobs you have currently downloading, the total amount queued for download, the total amount currently seeding, and the total amount queued for seeding. Also, the total upload and download speeds are displayed in the tooltip. Left-clicking on the tray icon will toggle the visiblity of the main window, depending your system tray settings. Right-clicking the tray icon will display a context menu, through which you can make quick settings changes to µTorrent:
- Hide/Show µTorrent toggles the display of the µTorrent main window.
- Pause all torrents sets all downloading or seeding torrent jobs to paused mode.
- Resume all torrents will resume the transferring of paused torrent jobs.
- Download Limit allows you to control the global maximum download limit. The values displayed depend on the speed popup list settings in the Preferences.
- Upload Limit allows you to control the global maximum upload limit. The values displayed depend on the speed popup list settings in the Preferences.
- Enable Scheduler allows you to enable or disable the scheduler from the without having to open the Preferences.
- µTorrent Webpage opens the µTorrent webpage in your default web browser.
- µTorrent Forums opens the µTorrent forums in your default web browser.
- Exit does just that -- it exits µTorrent. Note that exiting µTorrent automatically sends a stop signal to trackers, so you do not have to stop all torrent jobs before exiting. Torrent jobs that are not stopped will automatically be started when µTorrent is next opened. Even after exiting, the µTorrent process might continue to run for a while longer. This happens because µTorrent is trying to finish transferring pieces and write remaining pieces to disk from memory. The process should disappear after a few seconds.