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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
=== GOZO Finder ===
Seemingly defunct as of February 2024. Website is still online but files cannot be searched.
== Sites that purge files for inactivity ==▼
=== FileRio ===
Dead as of April 2024, exact shut down date unclear
=== DepositFiles ===
Still active as of April 7, 2024. However, files are purged if they are not downloaded within 90 days, so most links are long dead.
=== TurboBit ===
Fortunately, there are a few options:
* <s>The easiest way is to use a Telegram bot which lets you download files from Chomikuj easily. You can add it [https://t.me/CzomikBot here]. You need to type "/start" then paste the link to the file. (example: <code>http://chomikuj.pl/polonista2233/Systemy+Operacyjne/WindowZ+v2+2010/WindowZ+v2+2010,6660974000.iso(archive)</code>)</b></s> Bot is dead as of April 2024.
* If the bot is down or you can't use Telegram, you will have to a premium downloader. [https://leechall.com/ LeechAll] is able to download up to 2 GB from Chomik per day, but you'll have to battle through Adfly chains, malicious redirects, and many distractions, to get the file.
* Finally, if you happen to live in Poland and have a carrier that still allows Premium SMS, you can pay for the download points through that and download the file.
=== 4shared ===
One of the most popular file hosts of the mid-late 2000's, along with
=== Google Drive ===
Google Drive is an extremely
'''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.
=== SendSpace ===
=== Uloz.to ===
Active, but they purged everything without any warning in January 2024. It's been replaced by their new service, Uloz.to Disk.
=== DepositFiles ===
Still active as of April 7, 2024. However, files are purged if they are not downloaded within 90 days, so most links are long dead.
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