If you're a considerate bittorrent user (i.e. not a hit-and-run leecher) then you most likely have tons of complete torrents, just sitting there, seeding in uTorrent right now... and as long as you have a reasonable upload limit imposed, seeding like that will usually have little to no impact on your download speeds.
However, there is one caveat to being a super-seeder... losing track of what you downloaded! I cannot count the number of times that I have forgotten having downloaded a particular file, because it was visually lost in my large list of seeding torrents.
Here's a stupid, yet useful, tip to prevent that from happening again... and to order your torrents in a much more logical way...
In uTorrent, while looking at your torrents, if you scroll all the way over the right, you will find a "Completed On" column. (Despite being right on uTorrent main screen, this column is not very well known, as few users ever have a reason to scroll that far to the right) Click twice on the words "Completed On" and your list of torrents will now be sorted according to... you guessed it, when they completed downloading.
Voila!
(Editorial Note: I feel like this tip may have been too simple to have used so many words to describe it... Sorry, I'll try to turn the verbosity down in the future)
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