This is what it looks like when a machine gives up. For the first time since this started, I didn’t wake up ready to fight. XP booted clean. Nothing screamed. The browser opened. Enafore loaded. I read some posts. JAWS tracked. The system didn’t even creak. It felt... survivable. No new services had risen from the grave. No weird startup behavior. The registry held. The audio stack behaved. Even the network card—flaky as hell on day one—was quiet and obedient. There was this uneasy ca...
