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Watch movies with XP and no Silverlight.
« on: June 02, 2015, 09:03:36 PM »
The is apparently not a browser issue. It is an issue with using current version of Silverlight with Windows XP. Microsoft does not support XP and he requirements for Silverlight excludes  XP.
Of course, this is not a problem with Windows 7, 8 and 10.
Reference:
https://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/what-is-silverlight/

But you can get fair results with adobe flash in some browsers.

Chrome is OK when I watch a movie on my old XP laptop.
But with Silverlight I get an error message on Amazon prime.

How about you?


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Re: Watch movies with XP and no Silverlight.
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2015, 01:10:52 PM »
Ran into this issue a while back with my older XP system and trying to watch Netflix which required Silverlight. Silverlight 5 works with XP SP3. So if you can get Silverlight 5 you might be ok until the service checks the version and complains that it no longer supports 5 etc. http://superuser.com/questions/656414/is-silverlight-5-compatible-with-windows-xp-sp2

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Re: Watch movies with XP and no Silverlight.
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2015, 02:21:28 PM »
Thanks. I fol;led the link and then was led  to another sight. One must pick  some new version of Silverlight, but not too new.

EDIT: Good. It now works OIK on Amazon prime.  The version that works  for me is:
Silverlight_5.1.20125.0.exe
From:
http://www.oldapps.com/silverlight.php?old_silverlight=11966?download
Nice that somebody is helping the XP crowd.  :D

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Re: Watch movies with XP and no Silverlight.
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2015, 08:25:57 AM »
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Nice that somebody is helping the XP crowd.

Glad to help.  :)  Also cool that you found a active link to get 5.1.20125.0 as for sometimes the links remain and the files fall off the face of the web. I should download that copy to save on my external where I collect important old versions for legacy support for when the web dries up with support for older OS.

Thanks for sharing that link  8)