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I recently updated my VLC player. Now, every time I click on any link to download a torrent, my VLC player opens instead of, say, Limewire. Have I associated VLC with managing torrent/magnet links? Confused.

VLC installer doesn't have .torrent association, so you must have done that manually.

I am having the exact same problem. And I did not do anything manually. All I did was install VLC. Please help as this is extremely frustrating. I have had to delete and re-add VLC more times than I care to count, just so that I can still download torrents, but also watch movies! PLEASE HELP ASAP!!!!