Yep, supporting operating system which is now 15 years old becomes more and more difficult. It's nothing unexpected. However, the good thing is that NVDA will now be able to focus more on advantages offered in Windows 7 and later.

With all due respect, I saw this coming sooner or later. I have to give it to nv access for supporting xp as long as they did, being, by record, the screenreader that has actually supported xp the longest.

I have not touched XP since 2009. Don't miss XP at all. It was good for the time but ever since I used windows 7 and now windows 10 it would be hard to go back. LOL

I'd always assumed XP support was already gone. Guess I'll be pleasantly surprised ...

XP works and it runs Win32 applications that I actually care about (all the other important stuff I have now runs everywhere else). That's all I need Windows for. Even many games now run under Wine. To the extent that newer apps are dropping XP support, it simply hasn't affected me that much. However I always prefer to keep my options open and I can certainly understand the march of progress. If I come back to Windows I'd expect nothing less than a completely modern stack and if dropping support is the price, I'm OK with that.

I'm using XP VM for running older games such as those from BSCGames that will not be able to run on anything later than Windows 7, but NVDA 2017.3 is good enough for this. Now when XP support is dropped, NVAccess guys are finally a step closer to switching from Python2 to 3, which fixes issues in Python2 including unicode support. Python3 is also better in performance. Addon compatibility will be the only problem, at least for addons that are no longer developed or officially supported.

This was a long time coming. Not only is Windows XP obsolete, there are massive security flaws in using an operating system that is over 15 years old. AS far as I'm concerned, XP is effectively dead now, and I'm glad of it.

If you really feel like it, there are ways to get them to work on 10. IF you're interested I can try to dig up the info, but I got it working at one point. The games are a little clunky, but gameplay wise, they can be played well. They run smoother on XP obviously, but are somewhat more laggy because of being on a VM.

Ugh. Give me a break. I'm not surprised but... meh. It seems most of what goes into NVDA these days are support for Win10 features like Edge, and other more recent apps that won't run on XP anyway. I don't really understand what more can be done to improve XP support beyond what it's already at. I myself at least recommend people use 10 because they'll be up to date, and it's not that bad once tweaked. It can feel more or less like 7 or XP and the transition can be made easier. I especially like OCR... I've used it multiple times in the past week to help me navigate and learn about programs that are completely inaccessible without it. While I understand all the people who are resistant to upgrade past XP because of the change, the arguments are becoming less and less valid at this point. While I don't judge them for clinging to XP or anything, I do hope they realize what they're doing. If it works for them and they don't mind, great. But I am so sick and tired of the complaining. You either adapt to the changing world or it leaves you behind, and there's not much individuals can do about that. I don't like it either, but what else can I say? I try to be positive even through changes I don't like, it just feels better and is healthier. I think NV Access really did more than they had to to support XP as long as possible. I truly do commend them for this, but even they have to end it.

@14-15, you know, these moaners and groaners will only recognise that Windows XP is done for when they get hacked by something that was fixed in a later windows release and get totally destroyed because they failed to upgrade. They don't care about the new features of windows -- they'll only care when something happends to them that makes them lose everything because a hacker exploited a vulnerability that windows 0 fixed a long time ago.

Hey, if you like being spied on by Microsoft, as well as being used as a guinea pig for paying (and much more important than you, to Microsoft) customers, be my guest. It's your privacy being violated and your precious time being wasted debugging Microsoft software for Microsoft's benefit, not mine. You might not care, but I do, and yes it's a factor. Windows 8.1 is as far as I'm going until such time as Microsoft can stop being such insufferable wankers about it, and give people choice. I'll pay Microsoft for the privilege, if need be.

Does that completely disable everything though, Ethin? I actually did a few of those things, disabling telemetry, all be it I disabled a few different services, but methods come and go all the time and people figure out what works and what doesn't. But hey, if this does it, and it's apparent that it does so, I'm all for it. Otherwise I'm of half a mind to switch to windows 7, considering I did finally find a way to disable the damned startup repair, and the telemetry is in the form of an update which you can very rightfully refuse. Come to think of it, my windows 7 isn't even activated *thanks, OEM license* so I probably wouldn't even get much in the way of major updates as it stands.

Oh good. In that case, never upgrade your build without re-deleting I suppose, as the update installations may or may not have a copy of the service.