As in the favorites tab?

Start-->Settings-->Taskbar & Settings.

It's then the second tab along i believe that should allow you to restore your favorites Tab.

Chris

The simple solution may just be re-install IE im guessing its IE7, should fix it

Chris

If you set the bios to boot from CD, then the only time i've ever seen this happen before is when the Disc was screwed..

Sorry i cannot provide any other solution, even after reading a bit more...

Have a look at partioning software such as partition magic. This should run fine from boot of a floppy disk and allow you to delete all partition on the computer leaving it blank ready for OS...

Realtek may be able to help you out. They have drivers compatiable with ALOT of sound cards

Check you don't have any extra programs trying to launch on boot that you do not want and may be causing this. Just check..

Start->Run->msconfig

Have you tried booting in safe mode, that might allow yuo to login in correctly then delete any files that may be cause the problem