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This is something I was researching, I couldn't find much about it, until I found this. Audacity versions up to 3.0.2 work on XP if you use PEHDR-Lite. However, there's no link to the program, guide, or what to even do with it. I was able to find a copy of PEHDR-Lite, however for this guide, I will use CFF Explorer since it has more utility outside of editing PE Headers.

1: Install Audacity. I use 2.3.3, and you should too. It's the perfect version, 2.4+ broke things like MP3 importing and exports in lossy formats are worse.
2: Download CFF Explorer
3: Open audacity.exe in CFF Explorer.
4: Under Nt Headers, select Optional Header.
5: Change MajorOperatingSystemVersion and MajorSubsystemVersion to 0005. It should look like this
6: Save the file.
7: Install the VC++ 2015-2019 x86 runtime if you don't already have it installed.
8: Launch Audacity.