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IE9 (32-bit) on Vista SP2 Home Premium 32-bit here The youtube.com/html5 test is correct when it comes to IE9 on Vista (no VP8 support here): IE9 has no support for MSE; after Google ceased supporting Adobe Flash Player (all 3 variants of it, i.e. activeX, NPAPI, PPAPI) on youtube, the only thing left for IE9 to handle was progressive download of mp4 files (encoded in h264/aac) over HTML5, and I recollect the limitation of not being able to go Fullscreen on the embedded player (a message about unsupported browser was displayed ) ... It was at the start of summer that I accidentally noticed yt was unplayable on IE9, as I'm hardly using IE9 for anything this day and age... I did not lament the loss of yt on IE9, in any case it had been an unsupported browser many moons ago already... But it was this thread that made me want to investigate things... So: Well, youtube claim they don't officially support any IE version anymore, yet tests show that IE10/IE11 still work, while (obviously) previous versions don't... Loading Introducing iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR in IE9 (after you declined to upgrade your browser, that is...), you get the empty embedded player, as per OP: For troubleshooting, open IE9's developer tools (F12) and load (browser) Console; refresh youtube page: To load their embedded player, yt use, among other things, a JS script named base.js; URI for my locale is: https://www.youtube.com/yts/jsbin/player-vflkUTZn2/el_GR/base.js That script uses in 19 instances the window.matchMedia code snippet; a Google search on matchMedia yields the following two results (among others): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/matchMedia#Browser_compatibility https://caniuse.com/#feat=matchmedia where one can see that the needed API was introduced only in IE10+, i.e. IE9 does not understand window.matchMedia and chokes, failing to load the HTML5 youtube player: Mozilla Firefox, OTOH, supports the function from an early version 6 - and Chrome from version 9... Not strange anymore, is it?

OT: Of the 3 WMP versions that were supported in XP (9 -> 10 -> 11), my favourite one had always been WMP10 ; I was so sad I couldn't get it on Vista... I hardly ever used WMP11 on Vista, Winamp was my choice back then (ca. 2008), still have it installed, then tried Real Player SP, aka v12, but my current set of players includes MPC-HC (new fork is Vista+), MPC-BE (Vista+), VLC 3.0.4 (XP+), PotPlayer 1.7.xxxxx (XP+). On-Topic: Perhaps you can still upgrade to WMP11, to get the specified functionality, but use a WMP9 skin in it, to get the look you like... I found the following links: https://www.guidingtech.com/11798/apply-skins-windows-media-player-personalize-it/ https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17560/apply-skins-to-add-a-little-flair-to-windows-media-player-12/ (The last one is for WMP12, however the same procedure applies to WMP11...). From my own copy of WMP11 (on Vista), the Revert skin preview looks a lot like WMP9: Tell us if it works for you...

Yeah, I'm fine, as well as my web server. I'm just busy in $DAYJOB because of aftermath of typhoon.

Uau, Server 2008 now recieves Monthly Rollups and Security Only updates just like the rest of the big boys? I'm actually surprised! Now only Windows POSReady 2009 (XP) recieves individual updates. This actually makes my job easier Here's the page with the updates info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4343218 More info on the subject: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/06/12/windows-server-2008-sp2-servicing-changes/ My theory - they changed the updating scheme to be like the rest of the supported Windows versions because of the paid support they're providing for any company who sticks with Server 2008 (https://aka.ms/eos-offer-faq) Anyway: Added Monthly Rollup, KB4458010 (located on the root directory of the repository) Added Security Only Update, KB4457984 (located in the folder "/Security Only (Post August 2018)") Replaced Internet Explorer Cumulative Update KB4457426 (located in the folder "/Security Only (Post August 2018)") Replaced .NET Framework Security and Quality with: -KB4457043 for .NET 2.0 SP2 (located in "/NET 2.0 SP2/Security and Quality Rollup") -KB4457038 for .NET 4.5.2 (located in "/NET 4.5.2/Security and Quality Rollup") -KB4457035 for .NET 4.6-4.6.1 (located in "/NET 4.6-4.6.1/Security and Quality Rollup") Added .NET Framework Security Only updates: -KB4457054 for .NET 2.0 SP2 (located in "/NET 2.0 SP2/Security Only") -KB4457030 for .NET 4.5.2 (located in "/NET 4.5.2/Security Only") -KB4457027 for .NET 4.6-4.6.1 (located in "/NET 4.6-4.6.1/Security Only") I think that's everything... Let me know if I missed anything! https://mega.nz/#F!txxRyLzC!1vBMGzMHiL864f3bl1Rj1w

Direct links for September 2018 updates: WES09/POSReady 2009 (7 updates, English only), .NET Framework 3.0SP2 - 4.0 (3 updates, international), IE8 cumulative update (English) and Office 2007 compatibility pack update (international) http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/08/windowsxp-kb4338381-x86-embedded-enu_5e6168475c2fb6f8d78d9b639e6d9802f4b90917.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/08/windowsxp-kb4457163-x86-embedded-enu_6079ca40413cb788b625ebc6c4b8b802fa3bca57.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/08/windowsxp-kb4458000-x86-embedded-enu_cd9e39263c1b198b9d0a22529100434d3bd20e90.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/08/windowsxp-kb4458001-x86-embedded-enu_b6ae71b9b58128d4c6a3221208c1e42d0d434f79.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/08/windowsxp-kb4458003-x86-embedded-enu_a17d87d408201c9d690d726da04d09f717bc661e.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/09/windowsxp-kb4458006-x86-embedded-enu_e96b950633bde3636cffe6629b30f424acc90daf.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/08/windowsxp-kb4458318-x86-embedded-enu_d2751e7d4cd301c51c010f1d193d909e64ba8466.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/09/NDP30SP2-KB4457058-x86_BCE0BA79F1762A58060AE546882B4E2A1EDDC4AA.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/09/NDP40-KB4457046-x86_407A3EFB88F4BDF4974375F288761502E1683155.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/09/NDP40-KB4462774-x86_3D9D6CC17C34A22B9F1421BF8A8CDBBE9EDE2B5C.exe http://download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/secu/2018/08/ie8-windowsxp-kb4457426-x86-embedded-enu_5dac5caee0807d17ca37c8837a81d80c7f25f36a.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/6/5B6BA120-99ED-4BA3-A6FD-B6C1A116C6B1/xlconv2007-kb4092466-fullfile-x86-glb.exe