Patrick, thanks for the reply. I just tried a couple of different pictures and some work fine, others not. I'll just find two that work all the time, I guess.

This usually happens when the background image for one desktop is broken or somehow incompatible so Windows can't load it as a wallpaper. Try a different image file.

Just to add, the desktops shown in Configure Desktops are as I want them to be, i.e., Desktop 1 in Configure Desktops is not as it actually appears when I return there, even after I click Refresh while in desktop 1.

Desktops 1 and 2 have different backgrounds, selected from a couple of my picture files. When I switch to desktop 2, then switchback to desktop 1, the background of desktop 1 becomes that of desktop 2. I have used Dexpot's "Configure Desktops" to specify the backgrounds in each case. Windows 7, x86 and latest version of Dexpot.

Any suggestions?