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... Hi ; most unfortunately, this isn't how things work ; Google , the owners of YouTube, have unleashed a war of annihilation against every kind of YT downloaders and they're NOT excluding/pardoning any of them based on the OS they're compatible with ; and, trust me, every breaking change Google implement (on purpose) isn't meant to leave "older" versions of downloaders unscathed ... XP-compatibility in Q4 of 2025 is also a concern for many Windows apps, not only Video Downloaders... I tend to stay clear of GUI media downloaders, so, alas, if you're in search for one of them, I'm afraid I won't be the person to recommend one to you... My own experience is that most of the GUI YT downloaders are frontends of the well-known CLI (Python) apps youtube-dl and its fork, yt-dlp; the GUI apps either use the standalone youtube-dl.exe or yt-dlp.exe binaries under the hood or use the respective libs inside their source code; as a consequence, whenever Google break youtube-dl/yt-dlp, the apps become broken, too ... Recently, Google implemented a breaking change of a great magnitude, which should explain your observation that yt-dlp and youtube-dl were impacted/broken, too, a stop-gap/interim solution has been implemented for both, but they were actually "stitched back together with duct tape", meaning they can break again at any time... More permanent solutions for YouTube downloading in those apps will leave, probably, any WinOS < Win10 uncovered (too early to tell with absolute certainty, maybe Win7 will be spared, but things are very grim for XP/Vista ) ; at the time of this writing, working versions can be found at: https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly/releases/download/2025.09.29/youtube-dl.exe (official nightly version) https://github.com/nicolaasjan/youtube-dl/releases/download/2025.09.29/youtube-dl.exe (fork of the above with a few custom modifications) https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases/download/2025.09.27.071342/yt-dlp_x86_winXP.exe If you're not familiar with those two CLI apps, am afraid this isn't the place to ask for help; however, ample HowTos can be found online with a simple web search, both apps have detailed wiki sections (assuming one already knows to invoke apps from the Windows command prompt) ... For developments related to both youtube-dl+yt-dlp, keep an eye on the dedicated MSFN thread: https://msfn.org/board/topic/184368-who-here-has-a-youtube-dl-compile-for-winxp Best regards ...

This manifests itself in the fact that the time on the computer starts to rush. This occurs when working with relatively new versions of Chrome-based browsers, such as 360, Chromium 87, and Supermium. They constantly switch the timer mode from 1 to 16 ms, which causes the time to run ahead. This program switches the timer to continuous operation in 1 ms mode, so the time is correct.

I use this: https://yadi.sk/d/KpTGDPITsNWn7w the program itself is in the Timer_Fix folder. Brief description: Timer_Fix program with source code written in Visual Studio 6.0. The program has no interface; after launch, it will set the system timer to a period of 1 ms and leave it unchanged. The program will remain in the processes until the OS is rebooted. For convenience, it is best to place this program in “Startup” and completely forget about the problem of time passing. No issues have been found with using this method.