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Is that the "Additional Tasks" screen of the installer, and is the second checkbox supposed to say (in Russian) "Reset Preferences?" but actually coming out as nonsense?

I was about 80% through it, audacity hit me with a pop up window and closed itself It would seem that that is the root of the problem, but to diagnose further we would need to know exactly what the pop-up window said. it told me there were 6 orphan files and suggested I delete them The default opti...

Please state which version of Windows you are using, the exact three-section version of Audacity from Help > About Audacity

That one can be made marginally better by using the Amplify effect and the Noise Reduction effect. Here's a 'before / after' example to show what you can expect: audioclipje 2.mp3 Information about the effects can be found from the links in this part of the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man...

Which screen is that?

The Distortion effect does exactly what it was designed to do. This is an example of the type of thing that it does: distortion.mp3 Information about the distortion effect can be found in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/distortion.html As with other effects of this type, it is necessa...

Have you tried doing a normal export as MP3 (not from a chain)?
Does the problem occur with one specific project / file?

Unfortunately that cannot be rescued. It was recorded too loud, which has resulted in the waveform being "clipped" (distorted).

I suspect that the "out of memory" message came from your operating system (Windows) rather than from Audacity. (I'm not aware of there being an error message like that in Audacity, and I've seen most of the error messages at one time or another). The second error ('Error opening sound dev...

To download Audacity 2.2.0 for Windows:
Go to this web page: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/
and click on the text link near the top of the page where it says: "Audacity 2.2.0 installer (19.34 MB, includes help files)"