Advanced Onion Router is a client for OR network and is intended to be an improved alternative for Tor+Vidalia+Privoxy bundle for Windows users. It is able to "force" a program and its plugins to use the Tor proxy regardless of its configured proxy

1. Host a Hidden Service
To start hosting a hidden service, start your server software that will host your hidden service and configure it to disable any settings that would cause it to reveal its real location (or, alternatively, you can intercept it). You start hosting a hidden service when you add it to the list of hidden services. Your service will be accessible through its associated .onion address (you may need to configure this .onion address in the server software you use).

2. Host an Onion Router
The OR network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the faster the OR network will be. If you have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way, please help out by configuring Advanced Onion Router to be a relay too. To do this, you must enter a port for your relay (default port is 9050). You are hosting an onion router when directory servers have your address in the list they share for OR clients (they may not immediately update their lists with your service).

How to use:
1. Quick Start
"Quick Start" is a list of favorite programs that Advanced Onion Router can start and intercept at startup. Each program can have its own private sandboxing settings. All program-specific sandboxing restrictions apply, and all programs started from the "Quick Start" menus / command line / window cannot access any real information that is restricted by these settings.
This is the "safe" way to start a program.

2. Processes
The list of processes allows a quick way to release an intercepted process and/or to intercept a program that was started before starting Advanced Onion Router, or a program that is allowed to have have non-OR network activities during the same session. While sandboxing restrictions apply, the program may already have some restricted information it got before these restrictions were applied and it may send restricted information through the OR network. If you are not sure the program doesn't leak any information that can be used to uniquely identify you, consider starting it via "Quick Start".

3. Sandboxing
Sandboxing restrictions are used when a new process is intercepted. When a program is added to the "Quick Start" list, current sandboxing options are saved as the default settings for intercepting that program. To change the settings for an existing "Quick Start" entry, remove the program from the "Quick Start" list, change sandboxing options and re-add it. When using the "Processes" window to intercept an existing process, current sandboxing settings are used.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this network utility software.