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All dead. Shut down on August 16, 2023 due to extreme volumes of users abusing the service and their proxy provider shutting them down. Other sites that AnonFiles manages (like FileChan and BayFiles) went down with it.
 
While uncommon for bootlegs, a few bootlegs were posted herethere. Common from 2021 to 2023. <!-- todo: scour the internet for the oldest anonfiles links to bootlegs !-->
 
=== GOZO Finder ===
 
=== 4shared ===
One of the most popular file hosts of the mid-late 2000's, along with MegauploadMegaUpload and Rapidshare. It is also one of the longest lasting file hosts from back then as well. Still online as of August 14, 2023. Although they purged every file with the word "Windows" in it, it's still worth trying, but quite a few bootlegs have managed to slip through the cracks, for example a bootleg once considered lost, named [{Windows XP Vosten]], turned out to be on 4shared the whole time.
 
=== Google Drive ===
Google Drive is an extremely activepopular cloud storage provider owned by one of the biggest companies in the world, with thousands if not millions of files hosted. Despite Google Drive's overwhelming simplicity and ease of use, and its longevity compared to other fringe file hosts, people rarely ever host their bootlegs on Google Drive, unfortunately.
 
'''NOTE''': If you're on an old blog (such as [https://llinthit.blogspot.com Linthit], which fun fact is where most of the original Crusty Windows bootlegs were sourced from, as well as [https://3almalt9nia.com 3almalt9nia]) with a Google Drive link, it'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:
 
<pre>https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B4fL3ZBm6JwHeDBDNUpXSWQyWUk</pre>
 
Just don't forget to remove the filename at the end.
 
=== Internet Archive ===
The Internet Archive, AKA archive.org is a non-profit organization, well-known for the Wayback Machine, a project dedicated to preserving the Internet since 1996. In the Internet Archive, you can find archives of movies, books, newsprints, audio, video, music, and especially games, software and ISO images, including Crusty Windows bootlegs.
 
While the vast majority of bootlegs you will find there are mostly just Windows Never Released projects, bootlegs with minimal changes and nothing else interesting, bootlegs already in the archive, Windows Vista recolors (such as Windows Vienna) which are similarly uninteresting, and lite ISOs which don't try to be anything more than that and are largely unnotable in most cases, you can find some interesting ISOs there. We usually don't accept most of the ISOs found on here, due to the reasons as disclosed beforehand.
 
=== MEGA ===
MEGA is the successor of MegaUpload, and like its predecessor it's free to download from. and semiSemi-common for bootlegs,. howeverHowever, it has a 5GB/day download limit. To get around this, you can use [https://github.com/tonikelope/megabasterd MEGAbasterd]. However, MEGA is known to remove Windows ISOs and take the account that uploaded it along with it.
 
=== SendSpace ===
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