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March 24, 2008

Vista Ultimate Dreamscene

I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate at home and bumped into a cool new feature available to Ultimate users as an Ultimate Exclusive. The feature is called Dreamscene and it makes it easy to replace your boring static wallpaper with exciting dynamic wallpaper - apparently, without taxing your system resources too much. If you're an Ultimate user and good about downloading updates (even the optional updates) it's probably already installed; if you don't already have it installed, you can use Windows Update to download and install Dreamscene. While you're updating - grab the Dreamscene Content Pack as well.

Instructions for activating Windows Vista Ultimate Dreamscene:

  1. Right-click the desktop
  2. Select Personalize from the menu that appears
  3. Select Desktop Background on the Personalizaton screen
  4. Select Windows Dreamscene for Picture Location on the Desktop Background screen
  5. Select a Dreamscene, your background will update, click Ok after you settle on a Dreamscene for your background. NOTE: If you don't have the Content Pack installed, you will only see one Dreamscene in the list of available Dreamscenes. The Content Pack brings the number closer to ten.

Dreamscene is working pretty well for me on my modestly equiped Lenovo laptop so far. I like the liveliness it brings to the background - I have a rainy day scene running for my background. Oh, Dreamscene is also smart enough to go into a static state when the laptop is running on battery power. If you are a Vista Ultimat user - it's worth a look.

Dreamscene
   (Vista Dreamscene: Select "Windows Dream Scene" for Picture Location)

 



Posted by Cale on Mar 24, 2008
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