I would really appreciate some help with a problem i'm having with my computer. i've tried searching elsewhere but... obviously it hasn't helped  Anyway, for some reason, the background of my computer is appearing 3/4 white. This doesn't seem to affect anything else, windows, icons show correctly. I've tried many things to fix this, but nothing seems to work.Could you post a screen shot ?I discovered i could drag the space around, although it won't allow me to drag the background completely across the screen.
hmm, something else that jumps out at me is the fact that the alpha translucency on your icons  isn't working (notice the blue "borders" around most of your icons) this means that active Desktop is enabled... I think. Might be related.
Right-click the desktop and select "properties"

In the display properties window, choose the "desktop" tab, and click the "Customize Desktop" button, at the bottom.

In the "web" tab, UNCHECK everything in the "web pages" list box.

double check the background setting and make sure it is not a PNG image.

If you can drag it around, can you right-click it and possibly get a menu?just the properties menu, and i've tried unchecking all webpages, to no avail. It does the same with all pictures.Have you tried doing a system restore yet?

What have you tried doing to fix the problem?

Did you install any programs or make any changes right before this started?Unfortunately someone deleted all the old restore points without thinking to make a new ONE, so i can't restore, unless there's some way i don't know about. I've tried quite a few things, including fixing a dll error that was popping up, which didn't help, scanning the computer for errors and VIRUS', and uninstalling a few programs that were new. As to what the computer was doing, or what could have caused it, i have no idea, as the computer is shared and the people who were using it at the time say nothing out of the ordinary happened...  I believe there may have been a crash or freeze and when they rebooted the pc the screen was like that. I've also checked graphics properties, tried adjusting screen size and resolution and things like that (which resulted in the box moving to the center of the screen and becoming unadjustable.) Anything else i've tried i can't REMEMBER, since i've tried so many things at this point. A few months ago i installed uxpatcher, and was using a custom theme, but now it won't work at all, and trying to use it results in the picture changing to black and everything else restoring to windows classic mode. Although this could just be because others, trying to fix it without knowing what they were doing messed with it, thinking it might be the reason the screen was like that. But the custom theme was fine to begin with. Anyway, that's all i've got. i really have no idea.Theme apps play havoc in general with Windows....just the way it is.
Re-boot and switch to classic view and see if it's normal.
If so power down and re-boot and switch back to the FISHER Price theme and see what happens...Nope. didn't work. Have you tried changing th e screen resolution ? ?
Also you didn't mention what it looked like in Classic mode...Yes, it results in the white box moving and becoming undraggable. [It looks like it always does in windows classic, except of course for the box.
Thanks all for the help, it's fixed now! Keep us in suspense..... About the sixth time i unclicked "my homepage" in desktop webpages it finally worked. i was really just trying everything again, so i was very surprised that it worked now.