Attempting to load Audacity v. 2.4.2 on Win XP SP3 machine, got code 193 error. Audacity installs a screen icon but gives error message and will not start. Any ideas? Got the same message when I attempted to install Audacity3.0.
Windows XP is no longer supported.
You could try an older version of Audacity from here: https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-old.html