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Please detail your question or problem in as much detail as possible: I run windows vista on my laptop, which version of handbrake should i download? I have a version I downloaded in 2008 but when I try to access it, it hangs on "loading preferences" so I am looking to replace
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1.0 should in theory work, but ofc, we don't support running HandBrake on an outdated OS. In practice, I'm not aware of any breakage but HandBrake has never been formally tested on Vista. If not, 0.10.5 had a small number of vista users.