Well I got it fixed BUT this is screwy! Some how I stumbled onto
System Performance Options and saw the Visual Effects tab. I clicked
on Custom then back to Let Widows choose. After I hit apply I saw the
visuals change. Then I started the Sidebar and the white strip was
gone and it was back to the way it looked when I first installed
Vista.
Now this leads me to another question how stable is Vista really. I
have had all my network setting changed by itself. I had turned on
Network Discovery and File sharing. Then one time the got turned
off. I had to go in and change the settings again. I have seen other
items I have set only to have the OS change them. Example - I have a
program the put an icon in the systray to detect when a camera or
other items have been attached to the computer. Three times I have
gone into MSCONFIG and disabled the item in the setup and it never
gets removed from the systray.