> C:\Windows\System32\Activation completed. Welcome to the live environment.
> Thank you for activating Windows 7. Your experience will now be fully personalized.
Roman stood up so fast his chair toppled backward. He stared at the screen, then at the closet corner. Empty. Dusty. But the angle was exact. The photo showed his desk, his hands still hovering over the keyboard, his face frozen in that split second before he’d clicked the file.
He didn’t need to activate Windows 7. He hadn’t used that OS in years. But curiosity, that old itch, made him double-click anyway.