CrustyWin Wiki:File hosts: Difference between revisions

The site shut down on December 4th, 2013. The site now redirects to a MPAA "watch it legally" propaganda campaign, due to Hotfile being taken down for, obviously, copyrighted content involving pirated movies and music. Very common in bootlegs posted in 2007 to 2013.

Not to be confused with 4shared. It's a Vietnamese file upload site. The speeds aren't great and there aren't a lot of bootlegs here, but worth checking if you have an ISO name.

One of the most popular file hosts of the mid 2000's, along with Megaupload. Still online as of August 14, 2023. Not super common andAlthough they purged every file with the word "windowsWindows" in it, but it's still worth trying.

Google Drive is an extremely active cloud storage provider with thousands if not millions of files hosted. SometimesDespite (rarelyGoogle unfortunately),Drive's blogsoverwhelming maysimplicity giveand linksease of use and its longevity compared to ISOsother fringe file hosts, people rarely ever host their bootlegs on Google Drive.

'''NOTE''': If you're on an old blog, itsit's possible that the link might be using the old <code>googledrive.com</code> format. This has been deprecated and no longer works, but the download may still be available. We just need to convert the URL to the new format. To do so, first copy the URL, which should look something like this:

Internet Archive, AKA archive.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the internet since 1996., Whileincluding itmovies, isbooks, notnewsprints, reallyaudio, used for archival anymorevideo, you can find some interesting ISOs there. We usually don't accept most of the ISOs found on heremusic, due to the majority of them including but not limited to Windows Never Released projects and small ISOs ("lite"especially ISOs)games, thereforesoftware itand isISO very common for people (the majority of whichimages, areincluding children) to upload theirCrusty Windows Vista recolours/themebootlegs.

MEGA is free to download from and semi-common for bootlegs, however it has a 5GB/day download limit. To get around this, you can use [https://github.com/tonikelope/megabasterd megabasterdMEGAbasterd]. However, MEGA is known to remove Windows ISOs and take the account that uploaded it along with it.

While thisTeamOS is not really a file host, rather a forum, it is's a place for people to share Windows ISOs, the some of which are crusty bootlegs. It has been active since 2014.