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It does. Thank you! I can confirm, the binary works on Win11 Pro (on my brand new Framework Desktop).

; and as I had suspected, just the "yt-dlp.exe" file was enough ; and if you 1. delete the 4 wrapper DLLs targeting XP (kernelxp.dll, ntext.dll, psapi.dll, ws2_xx.dll) 2. substitute files python311.dll, _overlapped.pyd, _socket.pyd with their Vista counterparts (thanks, cmalex ), you can even run the "onedir" distribution under Vista SP2 32-bit: yt-dlp -v [debug] Command-line config: ['--ffmpeg-location', '<redacted>\\FFmpeg', '--downloader-args', 'ffmpeg:-v 8 -stats', '-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs utf-8, pref cp1253, out utf-8 (No VT), error utf-8 (No VT), screen utf-8 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.10.13.080600 (win_x86_dir) [debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2 (OpenSSL 3.5.2 5 Aug 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n8.1-dev-630-N-121254-g635cb45 (setts), ffprobe n8.1-dev-630-N-121254-g635cb45 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.10.05, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1834 extractors Usage: yt-dlp_x86 [OPTIONS] URL [URL...] yt-dlp_x86: error: You must provide at least one URL. Type yt-dlp --help to see a list of all options. Best wishes ...

I'll send the whole zip file.

I think that must be because I built directly after the standalone one, i.e. without deleting the build directory and start over. After I built the `onedir` version today from a fresh source directory, I got: [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version nicolaasjan/yt-dlp@2025.10.13.080600 (win_x86_dir) [debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.5.2 5 Aug 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-121254-g635cb4543f (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-121254-g635cb4543f, phantomjs 1.9.8 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2025.10.05, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.5.0, websockets-15.0.1 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1834 extractors

In win98se, if you enable fast shutdown (change the data of the registry value FastReboot in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\currentControlSet\Control\Shutdown to 1, or uncheck Disable Fast Shutdown in msconfig advanced options), your pc will restart when you turn if off normally. M$ released a patch called Windows 98 SE Shutdown Supplement to fix this bug. But in fact, this patch doesn't fix the bug, only updates some drivers related to battery and power management, and hides the Disable Fast Shutdown option in msconfig by replacing msconfig to a newer version. if you set the above registry value data to 1 after installing this patch, you will find that Windows still restarts when you turn off your pc. In my observation, the reason why this bug still exists when this patch is installed is that the fast shutdown bug is in the file reboot.vxd, which is integrated to vmm32.vxd when the first time win9x starts during Setup. And none of the win9x updates (including security updates, non-security updates, and hotfixes) update this file until their eol. So just replace 98se's reboot.vxd with the one in 98fe rtm, the fast shutdown bug in 98se is fixed. Additionally, the first updated reboot.vxd (version number > 4.10.1998) is in the build 2150 (98se beta2). from this version of reboot.vxd, the fast shutdown bug introduced. the version number of this file in the previous builds of 98se beta is 4.10.1998, actually it's the same file as the one in 98fe rtm.