Are you sure it's restarting? Or are you seeing the Welcome screen when you come back to it?
If you're getting the Welcome screen upon returning, right-click on an empty area of the desktop & select Properties. Click the Screen Saver tab and uncheck 'On resume display the Welcome Screen'
In that case, the first step is to stop it from rebooting so that you can see the BSOD message. Right click on My Computer, Advanced tab, Startup & Recovory Settings button, ucheck Automatically Restart.
The second thing is to check the event viewer. Start, Run, eventvwr.msc
I had a computer that I just sold because it would just reboot on it's own. I think it was a bad Power Supply. The case got very warm. The strange thing is that it would seemed to only reboot when I had Norton Antivirus for Win XP loaded with auto-protect enabled. I'm not sure if Norton caused this problem. Check to see if Norton is loaded or check for bad Power Supply.
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