Total ActiveX rejection

I cannot download ANY activex controls on ANY website, including Dell or
Microsoft. I get the standard:

"Your security settings do not allow Web sites to use ActiveX controls
installed on your computer."

I have enabled all activeX abilities, turned off ALL security, turned off
all privacy restrictions, turned off popup blocking, shut down all firewalls.
In fact, I have enabled everything, everywhere in the computer so that
nothing is restricted whatsoever - in other words, there is no safety,
firewalls, privacy or security on my system now. I know - extremely unwise -
but I'm getting desperate because I cannot download any updates for XP, virus
scanning updates. etc.

The only other thing the message bar says is:

"This page may not display correctly. Click here for options…"

When I click on the information bar the ONLY thing it says is "Information
Bar Help". There is no clickable saying "What's the risk?" or anything else.
When I click on "Information Bar Help", it just gives me the standard useless
windows helpbox about how to use the information bar itself.

Elsewhere on various pages regarding ActiveX issues, I've seen;

"You must be an Administrator in order to change the ActiveX controls
settings in Internet Explorer."

I am logged in as Administrator. I have tried all the solutions that have
worked for other people through various discussion groups across the net, and
none have had any effect on my system. I have also shut down all programs -
period - other than IE - with no effect.

I downloaded the latest IE 6 patch from Microsoft and I already have the
latest version of SP2 (one week old). I when I run either the patch or the
SP2 CD I get:

"Setup could not verify the integrity of the file "Update.inf". Make sure
the Cryptographic service is running on this computer."

It is running (and I've tried it without too). Just to clarify; I have the
latest virus definitions installed, and just to be safe, I've been doing
several scans during the day just to make sure I still haven't picked up
anything nasty.

I'm not running any 3rd-party firewalls, etc. I even took it back to square
one (restored it to date of purchase). Nada.

I may be faced with having to dump my personal files onto CD and
reformatting the drives. Unless there's something painfully obvious that I've
been missing all along?

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Regards

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