Okay try this first.  It may not help and you'll have to change anything you've done to your default desktop (like wallpaper and fonts on windows)  Right click on you're desktop, select properties.  Goto the apperance tab and under theme's pull up the Windows 98 standard (I'm of course assuming you're using 9.  Don't know if this will do the trick but it does help for some things.  Good Luck.