aaron<p>Day 3 of running Windows XP in 2025 is up.<br>I opened Enafore to check my Mastodon replies. It worked—for a few seconds. Then the notifications started. And they didn’t stop. Ping. Ping. Ping. I couldn’t reply. I could barely move the cursor. I watched the system buckle in real time.<br>So I tore XP apart.<br>I disabled over thirty services, deleted Windows File Protection, nuked the prefetch cache, rewrote shutdown behavior, and killed every background process that wasn’t strictly mine. If it touched the network, tried to log something, or ran without permission, it’s dead.<br>And you know what? Enafore runs fine now. JAWS doesn’t read new posts live, but I don’t care. I can read. I can reply. XP obeys.<br>Discord, though? Wouldn’t even load in the browser. Just a blank page. So tomorrow, I’m pulling in what channels I can through IRC. It’s not over.<br>Read the full post:<br><a href="https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025-day-3-i-dont-patch-i-burn/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea</span><span class="invisible">d-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025-day-3-i-dont-patch-i-burn/</span></a><br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/WindowsXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsXP</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/BlindComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlindComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/IRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRC</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/DeadOSWalking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeadOSWalking</span></a></p>
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aaron<p>People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.<br>I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.<br>No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.<br>Display drivers broke four times.<br>Serpent is the only browser I could get working.<br>I installed Office 2003.<br>Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.<br>NVDA still works fine.<br>I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.<br>I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.<br>Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.<br><a href="https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea</span><span class="invisible">d-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/</span></a><br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/WindowsXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsXP</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/BlindComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlindComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a> <br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/NVDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NVDA</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/JAWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JAWS</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/audiogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>audiogames</span></a> <br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/30DaysOfXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>30DaysOfXP</span></a></p>
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