Start button not working, icons gone, active x control error

[lilhead]

My box shows active x security errors with every mouse click and only the default icons are present. I see all my installed programs on the c:\ drive but cannot execute any. I usually update when the icon apperars, has been this way since Thanksgiving. Any one else been here before?

 

[Styx]

Update your antivirus, temporarily disable your screen saver (choose None) and scan with your anti-virus set to scan All Files. Update and scan bi-monthly.

You can scan on-line to double-check your Windows scanner at

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

*** Mandatory (get a firewall of any brand) - Get free Sygate personal firewall anti-hacker countermeasure from

http://www.sygate.com.

'Don't let anything out to the Internet you don't know what it is.' Also please see

http://www.firewallguide.com/

for more information on why all on-line home computers should be firewall enabled.

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Use System Restore to roll your computer back to a date to before when your computer worked right. Before the error(s) started occuring.

To start System Restore, click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click System Restore. Or, in the Help and Support main screen, click Use System Restore under Fix a problem. Emachines, Celeron 600, 256 Mb RAM, 10 Gb HDD, ADSL.

 

[Down4Life]

...turn off active desktop! ...my motto,no Rig is to tough for me to get around!...PITBULL