Click a Folder and desktop disapeers!

The orignal problem was that there was a silver like background surrounding each icon, obvyously was not normal (but could anyone tell me what the grey boxes were??), so I was able to fix that portion of the problem, now my main problem is that whenever I open a folder my desktop "disapeers and then restarts" what hapends is whenever I open a folder, it will make the desktop blank (for about 5 sec.) and then start the desktop again, but the folder will not open, I wanted to know is this a virus or something wrong that I'm doing! please help~!

(btw here are pictures as to what happends to my desktop!)

#1 This was the problem w/ the grey boxes around the icons


#2 This is what it looks like now, I had gotten rid of grey boxes


#3 This is what it looks like after clicking on a folder


#4 Goes right back to #2


So Could anyone explain to me what is happening with my computor??

Have you set your graphics card to application controlled if you haven't you might want to do that.

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Later Grandpa

... how do you do that??
thank-you for the response ^-^

o.O randomely enough it started to work today ^-^
and now i can open everything =) thanx grandpa for replying anyway!!