Why does my wallpaper only show up when explorer.exe is closed?

[dveisenhower]

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.

 

[Kelly]

Try their forums: http://forums.wincustomize.com/forum/176

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