Dreamscene is a technology introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista Ultimate that made it possible to display videos and other animations as the desktop background of the operating system. Other Windows Vista editions and previous Microsoft operating systems are not supported by Windows Dreamscene officially.
A third party alternative for Windows XP to Windows Dreamscene is [...]
Use Dreamscene On Windows XP
DreamRender is an alternative to DreamScene
DreamScene is an extra that ships with Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate that allows users to replace a standard wallpaper with an animated one. Microsoft is offering several videos for use in DreamScene but users can select a compatible video from their hard drive and make that their screensaver instead.
The biggest shortcoming of DreamScene is that [...]
11 beautiful Dreamscene Backgrounds
I never thought that highly about the Windows Vista exclusive add-on called Dreamscene which made it possible to display animated backgrounds in Windows. The main reason for my reservation was probably that I did not like the default videos that Microsoft was using to advertise Dreamscene.
Video Wallpapers for all Vista Editions
Dreamscene is one of those few applications that are exclusive to Windows Vista Ultimate users giving them the opportunity to use Video Wallpapers as the desktop background. Workarounds to enable Dreamscene on other Vista editions have been circulating the Internet for a while. This is however not wanted by Microsoft and only possible by using cracked versions of Dreamscene.
Run Dreamscene in any version of Windows Vista
It seems that someone finally found a way to make Dreamscene, the video wallpaper utility that is an Windows Vista Ultimate exclusive, available on all other versions of Windows Vista. This is reported by the tech blog My Digital life which is linking to a modified version of Dreamscene and describing on how to install and use this version on your operating system. You only need to download the modified version, unpack it to your system and run a bat file that handles the installation as an administrator.
