Frequently Asked Questions

No. There is no account system on this site at all, no membership tier and no download limit. Every page is readable and every link is usable without identifying yourself. There is nothing to sign up for because there is nothing an account would attach to.

No, and there never has been. Not one archive linked from this index is password protected. A password stops you inspecting what you downloaded before you open it, which is exactly why it gets used elsewhere and exactly why it is not used here. If something you downloaded is asking you for a password and claiming it came from 1007MACFM, it did not.

Because of what parts of them do. Licensing modules and activation utilities modify files and registry entries in ways that look identical to the behaviour scanners are built to catch, so they get flagged on behaviour rather than on content. That is why several entries tell you to add an exclusion before extracting. It is also why you should read the notes on each page rather than assuming every flag means the same thing.

With any current archiver. WinRAR is listed on this index and handles everything you will find here, including split volume sets. Extract to a real folder on a local drive first. Running an installer from inside an archive viewer works occasionally and fails in confusing ways the rest of the time.

Yes, if you use a download manager rather than a browser. Browsers lose partial downloads when a connection drops. A manager keeps the segment map and picks up where it stopped, which matters a great deal on the larger entries here. Internet Download Manager is on this index and is the usual answer.

Several of them check in with the developer during installation and change what they install based on the answer. Disconnecting removes that variable and makes the install match what the entry describes. It is in the installation steps on every page where it applies.

Continuously, but slowly. Entries are re checked on a rotation and rewritten when a newer build appears. Links are tested regularly and replaced when they fail. New titles go up at the speed the desk can test and write them, which is a handful a week rather than a flood.

Yes, through the requests form. Requests are counted, so a title asked for by several people moves up. Once it reaches the top it is sourced, tested on a clean machine and written up like everything else.

Use the report form, which is linked from every download page. Dead links are handled ahead of everything else in the queue and most are replaced the same day. If you leave a reply address you get told when it is done.

They are the counts held against each entry on the index. They are cumulative across the life of the entry, which is why the older titles have much larger numbers than recent additions. They are the ordering used across the site.

The site works on a phone, but almost everything indexed here is desktop software for Windows. Downloading a four gigabyte archive onto a phone is possible and rarely useful.

It is stored so the desk can work through it and it is used to answer you. Nothing else. There is no advertising network attached to this site and nothing collected here goes anywhere near one. The privacy page sets out exactly what is kept.