Hello. Basically, Windows decided to backup my ini files and restore factory defaults. Mostly I fixed the problems within Windows (like the registry) but not completely. The main problem was that it kept running out of memory because it was using incorrect settings and assuming I had a lot less memory than I actually have. Basically, I booted into Linux, mounted my Win filesystem (this is done at boot time), looked at the ini files, renamed them just in case, moved its backups to the correct filenames and rebooted. This did not totally fix the problem but it helped. Speakup in itself did not play a part except that I had speech feedback so I knew what the heck I was doing when I was renaming files.
