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=== Hotfile === The site shut down on December ~~4th~~4, 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. === JumboFiles === Dead, dead, dead. Shut down on December ~~31st~~31, 2015. === Letitbit === === Rapidshare === The site shut off on March ~~31st~~31, 2015 (though most links were dead well before then). Most common between 2009 and 2014. === Uploaded/Uploaded.net === The site shut down on November ~~30th~~30, 2022 after giving users less than 24 hours to get their stuff. Purged all Windows ISOs long before that anyway, so it didn't matter much. Most common in 2012 to 2015 posts. === Uploading/Uploading.com === === AnonFiles.com, and others === All dead. Shut down on August ~~16th~~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 ~~here~~there. Common from 2021 to 2023. <!-- todo: scour the internet for the oldest anonfiles links to bootlegs !--> === 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 Still active website, seems to purge if they aren't downloaded for a while (how long that is isn't specified anywhere). They have a [https://filerio.in/?op=check_files link checker tool] which you can use to see if files are still available. Not very common, but still worth checking if you find a link. ▲== ~~Sites~~Active sites that purge files for inactivity == === 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 ~~Megaupload~~MegaUpload 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. ▲=== GOZO Finder === Not technically a file host, but this website searches uloz.to along with a few others. Windows XP and Windows 7 bootlegs aren't uncommon here - this site should be one of your first stops when hunting for one. === Google Drive === Google Drive is an extremely ~~active~~popular 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://eaedbf0a00b3a37019819d280c9e3a86d86e0d85.googledrive.com/host/0B4fL3ZBm6JwHeDBDNUpXSWQyWUk/Windows%208.1%20MeeGo%20Edition%20-%20X64%20-%20DiLshad%20Sys%20-2015.part01.rar</pre> <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~~Internet since 1996. In the Internet Archive, ~~including~~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. Fun fact: Most of the original Crusty Windows bootlegs that were included when the collection was first starting were taken from [https://archive.org/details/windows-mod-collection-arabic-pack the 136GB Arabic Windows Mod Collection], which is on the Internet Archive. The site [http://3almalt9nia.com 3almalt9nia.com] was also heavily sourced from in Crusty Windows's early days. There's actually a lot of mods from the Arabic collection that are still pending to be added into the collection and be documented on this wiki. It'll eventually happen one of these days though. === MediaFire === === MEGA === MEGA is the successor of MegaUpload, and like its predecessor it's free to download from. ~~and semi~~Semi-common for bootlegs,. ~~however~~However, 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 === === 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.