Windows Versions and SSP Compatibility

Applicable SongShow Plus Versions: 
This article applies to all versions of SongShow Plus

The following information describes what versions of SSP have been tested and supported for compatibility with various Windows Versions.

NOTE: SongShow Plus is tested with full U.S. retail/OEM, English language versions of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows variants such as K, KN (no media support) or other OS variations, as well as non-English language/region settings are not tested or supported. If you find you have a "no media" variant, you can refer to KB SI16 for additional instructions.  Windows "S" Mode is NOT Supported.

Window 11
SongShow Plus Versions 9.2 to current are tested with Windows 11.

Windows 10 (Microsoft End Of Life - October 2025)
SongShow Plus Versions 8.3 to current are tested with Windows 10.

(Operating Systems listed below are no longer supported for use with SongShow Plus) 

Windows 7 (Microsoft End Of Life - January 2020)
SongShow Plus Versions 7 through 9.0 were tested for compatibility.

Windows Vista Ultimate (Microsoft End Of Life - April 2012)

Compatibility testing started with SSP version 7 and ended with version 8.

Windows XP Professional (Microsoft End Of Life - April 2014)

SSP Version 7 is tested for compatibility with Windows XP Professional. Future editions of SSP will also be tested for compatibility with Windows XP Professional for the foreseeable future. At some point in time, continuing support for Windows XP Professional will be dropped, but is not anticipated that this will happen for a least a year or more after Windows Vista is released.

SSP 5.5 was tested and supported with Windows XP Professional. There were some issues associated with SP 2 of Windows XP that were related to ATI drivers, but these issues seemed to be resolved with later versions of the ATI drivers.

Earlier versions of SSP were not tested nor supported on Windows XP Professional.

Windows 2000

SSP was never tested nor supported on Windows 2000.

Windows NT

SSP was never tested nor supported on Windows NT.

Windows ME

SSP versions 5.1 - 5.3 were technically supported on this version of Windows, but not much testing was performed with it.

Windows 98 SE

SSP versions 3.0 - 5.3 were tested and supported on Windows 98 SE.

Windows 98

SSP versions 2.0 - 5.3 were tested and supported on Windows 98

Windows 95

SSP versions 1.0 - 4.0 were tested and supported on Windows 95.

Earlier version of Windows

SSP was never available for versions of windows earlier than Windows 95.

(SI8)