I hate my compy, nothing but trouble.

Everyone has helped me with bits and pieces of my problems, and it just seems to get worse and worse.

Well, now I'm having a problem with my active desktop. when I boot up and login, windows gives me an error about my security settings and active-x controls. ...except that I haven't changed anything. the link to restore my active desktop doesn't do squat, and my windows picture and fax viewer is nowhere to be found, so I can't put a regular picture on there (it doesn't show up in the preview screen.)

Anywho, and yes, my windows picture and fax viewer is missing...I have no clue what happened. When I open My Pictures, I can see the thumbnails inside the folder icon, but when I open the folder, I get the generic "picture" image instead of the thumbnail of the image. when I double-click a photo, it says that it's "not a valid win32 application".

GRRRR! I want to do a clean install, but silly me didn't make sure that I got the software disks when I bought it off Ebay. I have my CDKey, but no XP Pro CD. GRRR!!!