Internet Explorer does not react in any way. However, after hitting launch application nothing happens. Interestingly the Magnet key within HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT properly points to utorrent and Chrome acknowledges this on first attempt to open the magnet link after deleting "magnet": false, from the Local State file. And finally the entire Magnet protocol does not appear as an option under Set Associations within the control panel. torrent files it does not appear as a "default program". Furthermore despite uTorrent being properly associated with. Magnet links simply do not function regardless of browser, or bittorrent client.