Would Windows XP ever natively, without any third party programs,have a scratching/card shuffling noise that plays fairly randomly in the background?

Solution 1:

Yes it can..

There is a question and answer on it here, that unfortunately got deleted by a moderator

https://superuser.com/questions/333880/what-is-the-source-of-this-funny-scratching-card-shuffling-noise-in-windows

In Windows XP when doing a search of files, there is/was an animation of a "dog" and the moment it scratched itself, there was a background noise of scratching.

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