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Grrr.

when you say restarting.  when is it restarting?? i had this problem where it would restart over and over on start-up, however if it isnt that then, have you tried virus scan aswell??

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...

Hi Bird Man. Which OS are you running? Also, do you have a good anti-virus application?  I don't want to worry you but my first thought would be that this is a virus.

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.

Its windows Me. I have Antivirus on this computer but the other one isn't connected to the internet so I didn't think it could be affected. Im not sure if in its present state it will allow me to install anything but Ill have a go.
It doesn't seem to think about restarting itself. It just restarts with no warning at all. Its been doing it for a while but hasn't done anything like this before.

 Ill try installing the antivirus. Thanks for your help.

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

I think this could be a Windows ME/XP bug. it is discussed in one of the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles. There is a patch to stop the "The system has recovered from a serious error" bug, and this fixes all restarting problems known to Microsoft. It worked for me. Havea look at it - it can't do any harm. Also try the Panda online virus scanner at http://www.pandasoftware.com.

Jonathan

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.  

Glad you fixed it.

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!