gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » video background http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:07:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows 7 DreamScene Activatorhttp://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/03/windows-7-dreamscene-activator/ http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/03/windows-7-dreamscene-activator/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 17:03:51 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=25118 DreamScene was one of the Windows Vista Ultimate Extras that Microsoft added exclusively to that edition of Windows Vista. The program was able to display videos as desktop backgrounds instead of static wallpaper images.

Soon thereafter alternatives like DreamRender became available that offered the functionality for all Windows operating systems.

Microsoft has made the decision not to distribute Dreamscene with their new operating system Windows 7. Thanks to the Windows 7 Dreamscene Activator it is now possible to enable Dreamscene in Windows 7 to use videos as desktop backgrounds.

windows 7 dreamscene activator

The portable program is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows 7 operating system. It will display two buttons in its interface to enable or disable DreamScene in Windows 7.

The program needs to be executed with elevated rights. A click on the enable DreamScene button will copy files to Windows system directory and add entries to the Windows Registry.

The tool will first copy DreamScene.dll to %WinDir%\System32 & DreamScene.dll.mui to %WinDir%\System32\en-US.

The Explorer process will be restarted afterwards to load the changes and offer the functionality right away.

DreamScene should now be active on the user’s system. Videos can now be added as desktop backgrounds by right-clicking them and selecting to set them as the desktop background.

Dreamscene videos can also be found at Deviant Art

Windows 7 DreamScene Activator can be downloaded from The Windows Club website.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/03/windows-7-dreamscene-activator/feed/ 6 Video Wallpapers for all Vista Editionshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/21/video-wallpapers-for-all-vista-editions/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/21/video-wallpapers-for-all-vista-editions/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:22:48 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/21/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.

Enter SSDream. SSDream is a software that is way more powerful than Dreamscene and available for all Vista editions. The video wallpaper functionality supports more than just wmv and mpeg-2 compatible video formats; Basically any video that plays in Windows Media Player should work with SSDream as well.

It’s difficulty to mention all the features of SSDream in this short article which is why I concentrate on the most important ones only.

  • Supports all Vista versions
  • Desktop icons remain visible
  • Multi-monitor support
  • Videos, Images and Screensavers are supported
  • Cpu priority settings

The developer is currently trying to bring his application to Windows XP as well which would be really nice.

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