[gtheb1952]

I'm asking this advice for my wife's cousin. She just got a computer and is a real novice when it comes to using it. The problem she is having is when she launches an application, the desktop wallpaper image still stays displayed over the application screen. For example, when she launches Internet Explorer her home page of Google.com comes up but the background is not a plain white background but is the wallpaper image. The same thing occurs when she launches Microsoft Word. The document background is not a white page but is the wallpaper image. As far as I know the same thing happens for any application she launches. Unfortunately for me the computer with the problem is 200 miles away from where I live so I can't personally try to resolve this problem. Any advice as to what I can tell her to try would be greatly appreciated.

The OS is Windows XP.

Thank you.

 

[Scorpion]

I think it's just a messed up setting. Try this.

Right click on the desktop, and click properties. Click the 'appearance' tab, then click the advanced button. In the window that opens, click the drop down box and select Application Background, then select a color from the box to the right....click ok, then click apply in the first window. See if that changes anything.

Scorp.

 

[gtheb1952]

Scorpion,

Thanks for the advice. I'll see if that does the trick