It seems any game that runs in 256 colors (Diablo II, Starcraft, Worms: Armageddon, Eternal Fighter Zero, etc) have difficulty rendering their palette properly, resulting in garbled graphics or even unplayable situations. The only workaround I can find so far is to actually kill explorer.exe and...
8-bit games
aero settings
color depth
compatibility mode
display problems
explorer issues
game workaround
gaming performance
garbled graphics
graphics rendering
legacy games
minimization problems
nvidia
palette issues
ram issues
system processes
taskbarproblems
video settings
windows 7