Folding@Home for Windows

Name: Folding@Home
Rating: 4.4 (7 reviews)
Author: Stanford University

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Download.com staffFebruary 26, 2026

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project that utilizes your spare system resources to advance research into protein folding and related diseases.

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Pros
- Advances critical scientific research
- Leverages distributed computing power
- Scales simulation speed with user participation
- Enables unprecedented simulation timescales
Cons
- Requires user to download and run client software

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GENERAL

Release: December 18, 2004

Latest update: February 26, 2026

Version: 5.03

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

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Windows 2000
Windows NT
Windows 10
Windows XP

Additional Requirements: Windows 2000/NT/XP

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Total Downloads: 5,875

Downloads Last Week: 0

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4.4/5

7 User Votes

help save the world great program ! minimum system use!
kalin333September 5, 2009
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easy to use , great help for humanity medical advance . humanity united together !
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no cons ! great program ! last time did not notify me for product update !
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 Updated on Oct 26, 2010version 6.23 is available from the folding@home website . it is supposed to be better than the verison available here . i hope CNET will update there download database for a program with sucha an importance!
problem with windows xp
bri54April 18, 2005
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Had a bit of a problem,with this program.My system windows xp,simply refused to run,just kept locking up after i had installed the software,and was asked to go online to download the information needed for the screensaver. brian
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Just do it!
January 23, 2005
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Made more sense than running SETI, so I switched. Massive support thru users and actual Stanford staff, who come up often and explain what they are doing and also publish results. Much more than othe DC jobs I have looked at
January 14, 2005
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Worthwhile distributed computing project
December 24, 2004
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Makes use of idle computer time; does not intrude on normal use of computer. If you run your computer 24/7, please consider joining the F@H project! Graphical and console (command line) versions available for Win9x, 2K/NT/XP, Mac OS/X, Linux. I've been running the console version for Win XP/2K since Aug 04 on several computers. Can be run as a Service so it is invisible to the user. The graphical version can also be used as a screensaver.
Excellent program to help others....
December 24, 2004
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This program says it all... Basically to help others in need... If one persons computer found just one fold that could help a cancer patient then it was worth it...
Please help!!!
fair_is_fairDecember 18, 2004
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This little program runs unobtrusively in the backround. It takes very little resources. Please help to find a cure for CANCER and other terrible diseases. We would be happy to have you fold for team 33258. Thankyou.

Developer’s Description

By Stanford University

Use you spare system's recourses to further protein folding, misfolding, and related disease research.

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease. Results from Folding@Home F@H exhibit See Prof. Pande's lecture on F@H at Xerox PARC

You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Our algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, we get a commensurate increase in simulation speed.

Folding@Home for Windows

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User Reviews

help save the world great program ! minimum system use!

problem with windows xp

Just do it!

Worthwhile distributed computing project

Excellent program to help others....

Please help!!!

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