Saving Images and ActiveX help

Two issues I have been 'dealing with' by ignoring for too long, now I am just annoyed.
I apologize for NOT knowing where to ask for help in the first place. After posting them elsewhere it was suggested that possibly here would be a good start.

ONE
right clicking on a photo to save it, it wants to save as an untitled bmp. I have tried going to tools, options, clearing and cleaning this and that, it MIGHT work for a while, where I can right click a photo and the name followed with .jpg comes up, but it isnt long before it lapses again.
Perhaps another lesson is in order please and TIA

TWO
certain sites I have been visiting for a while, now all of a sudden I get there and the box pops up saying "cllick to run ActiveX control on this webpage"
Well if I click it, i get the good old IW has envountered a problems, needs to close blah blah. Send a report or dont send
BUT sometimes, and sometimes only, if i "X" it instead, the window goes away and I dont get the IE pop up and I can continue on the site.

Okay so these are my two issues and I am tired of ignoring them and getting ticked instead. So please...help.

TIA
TRIE

 

I work with a lot of graphics and encounter the "save as" problem on a regular basis. It seems to be mostly a problem with XP. I read an article at the microsoft site a couple of years ago that said Microsoft was aware of the problem and that a "fix" was to delete the cache. I do that routinely now (usually on Wed.) and only when I forget, does it try to save things as a bmp. Unless it is an animated gif, I sometimes go ahead and save as a bmp and then open the file in a paint program and resave as a different file type. If I was a geek, you might get a better answer but this is one solution.

 

thank you so much for replying.
If anyone else knows how to help with either issue, a reply would be appreciated

TIA
TRIE

 

Try:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810978

 

What Operating system are ye running? 95/98/98se/me/nt4/2k/xp (sp1/2(home/pro))/vista?

 

I am running XP home and about to try the link you gave me as well.
Thanks

 

well junk.

I edited my post but it took me longer than 10 minutes so now I lost it all

In short terms, what I tried to say was

The cause of the whole photo saving issue
This behavior may occur if a damaged program file (for example, an ActiveX or Java object) is downloaded to the SystemRoot\Downloaded Program Files folder on your hard disk.

Might that have anything to do with the ActiveX problem I am having?

Also the second part of resolution never seems to apply to me. When i get to the step where I am to remove unkown or damaged files, I never have them to remove in the first place.

Then I moved the files to another location, relogged back on, and still couldnt right click to save a jpeg.

I totally appreciate your assistance though, I will check back again later.

TRIE