Grrr.  

  I was wondering if anyone could help. My computer has suddenly decided its had enough . Its been restarting itself for a while. But this time its decided to cause a little trouble .
  When I came back to it after a while it had decided there was problem writing do C:/ drive . So I re-started it and let the scan scan the harddrive. 12 hours later it finished. Time to fly... ..

  I got into windows and the active desktop had gone back to the default ???. All the things such as the 'My Computer' were on there but no personalized folders or programs. When I clicked on 'my computer' this message came up.

'Your Current security settings prohibit running activeX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly'


It says there are 8 objects in 'my computer' but I can't see them.
I know that the hard disk is not wiped - I was extremely worried about that. I was able to store the important things on this computer over the network. I was also able to set up a toolbar of Drive C: on the desktop and everything is there.

 Sorry for rambling on. Can anyone help (pleeeaaaase). I think the thing I need to do is turn ActiveX back on - but I dont know how.

I would be extremely grateful for any help, I don't know alot about computers .

PS. One more thing - the start menu doesnt work.

It just restarts itself occasionaly when its fully logged into windows. Most of the time it happens when nothing is happening. Sometimes it restarts in the middle of flightsim and worse when Im doing work. Ill have finish my reply after supper..............another call from downstairs thanks for your reply...

Kinda sounds like what the Blaster Worm virus or the Welchia Worm virus does.  One or the other recently came out and infected just Window XP, I think.

Anyway...it sounds like your computer was doing what my wife's did at her work.  Don't know about the Active X part but it made it keep trying to restart and when it got to a certain point it would tell her that it was going to shut down....and then it did.

Unfortunately right at the end of the installation I get Internal Error 2103.26!

I have finally sorted it out. It clicked when I went into microsoft word. It asked me for my name and stuff, I thought that this might mean that some information must be lost. In my ignorance I set off in deep exploration mode (with one of those hats with a light on of coarse) into C/Windows on a mission to click every button I could. Luckily before I had managed to destroy the Inards of my computer I came accross a program called 'SCANREG'. I clicked it. It did whatever it does and restarted and it all came back as if nothing had happened. I think something above (not a religios man) must have taken pity on me staring at a computer all day tearing my hair out...
Anyway........ Thanks For the responces everyone.

I know this is kinda late but one thing I have to say is even if it's not connected to the internet but it's networked to one that is it can still be affected over the network!

One final thing I use Zone alarms firewall (The free version) and AVG (The free one) I'm cheap but never had a problem.

O and also I have a problem were it just stight away shuts down but this is on a computer which is never updated as it's never on the internet so I think I might pop over a to microsoft website or let auto uodate do it and Update!