Skinning your Windows Explorer background
How to display your own images in Windows Explorer for XP & Vista
Thursday, January 17, 2008 by VistArtXPosed | Discussion: Skinning
With a typical installation of Windows (regardless of what version is installed), the Windows Explorer background is white. HOW BORING!!! With a little experimentation with Skinstudio 6, I found out that you could use any Bitmap or PNG file to fill your Windows Explorer background. Don't believe me? Click on the link at the bottom of the article, then you will believe me.
I also skinned the left & top navigation bars and filled it with seperate images.
To effectively fill the entire explorer background without tiling, use an image that's at least the size of your screen (i.e. if you use 1280x1024, use a 1280x1024 sized image, etc.[preferably a light-colored wallpaper]). Just make sure that you can still read the links to your folders and files, or this will just get in the way.
This works well for both Windows XP & Vista.
Enjoy!!! 
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Reply #21 Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:45 AM
Explorer skinning in WB has never worked for me on two different computers, one running Windows XP and one Vista. I had been using Skin Studio 6 to skin my explorer backgrounds, but after I installed WB 7 on my Vista machine, even Skin Studio is unable to apply explorer backgrounds, and of course, WB can't skin my explorer backgrounds either.
Here's the text on the "About Window Blinds" tab.
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.7
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.7
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.0 (build 230 x86 - Vista Edition)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Acer V223W ) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
(ACER X223W ) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
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Wbsrv.dll 2009/11/12 08:19:07
SevenConfig.exe 2009/11/12 10:16:53
Wbload.exe 2009/11/06 11:44:12
Wbhelp.dll 2009/03/24 15:04:07
Tray.dll 2009/10/21 08:13:19
Wbload.dll 2009/09/25 07:41:28
Screen.exe 2009/11/07 11:39:26