Cannot get youtube-dl to do anything

[astatine]

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Issue Description

I am trying to run yt-dl on a fresh Windows 10 install. I cannot get it to do anything; there's no output at all from the tool.

I am learning Windows Sysadmin and was playing around with Get-ExecutionPolicy and Set-ExecutionPolicy. I don't remember what I changed (from which defaults), but maybe that has something to do with it. The current values are as follows:

PS C:\Apps\yt-dl> Get-ExecutionPolicy -List

        Scope ExecutionPolicy
        ----- ---------------
MachinePolicy       Undefined
   UserPolicy       Undefined
      Process       Undefined
  CurrentUser       Undefined
 LocalMachine       AllSigned

Thanks in advance!

[dstftw]

PS C:\Dev\youtube-dl\master> .\youtube-dl.exe --help
Usage: youtube-dl.exe [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

Options:
  General Options:
    -h, --help                       Print this help text and exit
    --version                        Print program version and exit
    -U, --update                     Update this program to latest version. Make sure that you have sufficient permissions (run with sudo if needed)
...
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PS C:\Dev\youtube-dl\master> .\youtube-dl.exe --version
2019.02.08

[astatine]

I was able to solve my issue and am posting here in case it helps someone else.

Running youtube-dl.exe in PS quit the tool silently without errors, as shown in OP. Running it in cmd gave me the missing msvcr100.dll error. I then installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) and all was fine.