Wallpaper won't show up unless I close explorer.exe? I restarted my computer and upon bootup part of my wallpaper shows up, only the part where my object dock is. The rest shows up as a grey background. It's not terrible , but I would like to know the reason. This is what it looks like. http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/... The grey color shouldn't be there. As I change themes as well, that grey background turns to blue or whatever color the theme uses. Heres what I did. I close explorer.exe, my wallpaper shows up, but it closes my taskbar which I expected. Why is this happening? Any ideas? I rebooted yet again to see if it was a problem on that 1st startup but it did it again. Basically I guess my explorer.exe is acting as a full screen program, since I can see part of my wallpaper but only where the edge is reserved for my ObjectDock. Any help would be very appreciated.

Afraid the screenshot you attached doesn't seem to be a working link. Could you try adding another screenshot? This sounds like a bit of a strange problem, to be honest, and not something I've heard of before. I'm guessing you've tried updating the wallpaper with a different theme to ensure that it isn't the wallpaper itself that has become corrupted? I'd try that just to be sure that it's not a problem there. It could also be the image starting to load (thus explaining why you see the edge), and then stopping - since I can't imagine explorer.exe overwriting it. The Definitive Guide to Registry Cleaners & PC Optimization

I changed the theme in the appearance part of the Display properties, it didn't work, but then I changed it in the actual themes menu and it seemed to work. I can't believe I didn't think to change the whole thing, either way, thanks so much for the reply.