I was very disappointed to see the Ultimate Extras seen in Windows Vista, dropped in Windows 7 (if you can call them Ultimate extras!). DreamScene was one of my favourites, but no fear, it can be enabled in Windows 7. Windows DreamScene is a utility that allows videos and other optimized animations to be used as desktop wallpapers Note: You must have Aero enabled. Here’s how it’s done; Step 1. It’ll add all the relevant registry and context items needed to get DreamScene working.
We are pleased to released Windows 7 DreamScene Activator. It is a small freeware portable app which will allow you to activate DreamScene for Windows 7, 32-bit.
Head over to find a great selection of DreamScene wallpapers to distract you! Navigate to C: Windows Web (%windir% web) and you’ll notice that a Windows DreamScene folder has been created for you.
Download your DreamScene wallpapers to here and you can then apply then by right clicking them and choosing Set as Desktop Background. (Once you’ve done this, the folder will be added to your Personalization – Background drop down list).
You can pause/play the DreamScene by right clicking the Desktop and clicking the appropriate option. Uninstalling DreamScene. 1) To uninstall DreamScene run.
To do this, extract the reg file from the zip folder and either double click it and click run or right click it and choose merge. See before modifying your registry. 2) Navigate to C: Windows Web (%windir% Web) and delete the Windows DreamScene folder within.
It has sometimes been known that all desktop icon names will disappear, or become almost unreadable after installing DreamScene in this manner. To rectify this issue, uninstall Dreamscene as stated above. If you only have the Recycle Bin on the desktop you can always right click the bin, click rename and then hold down Alt, type 0160 & hit enter. This will make the name disappear.;) (Untested on x64) For any questions or help, please head over to the forums where you will find great assistance. Same question as cnitin for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I just followed the directions above and oddly the Command Prompt window stated it successfully “uninstalled” Dreamscene.
Yet it created the Windows Dreamscene folder that hadn’t existed prior. This is a clean install that I didn’t attempt to install Dreamscene on prior. I put a few Dreamscene WMV, MPG, and.Dream files in the folder but right-clicking them never produces the “Set as background” option.
One more thing to add after running the installer and getting the “uninstalled” message the explorer interface started to reboot but never came back. I had to manually open the Task Manager and run the explorer process. I’m adding this info in case it helps and to give as much info as I can. Same question as cnitin for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I just followed the directions above and oddly the Command Prompt window stated it successfully “uninstalled” Dreamscene. Yet it created the Windows Dreamscene folder that hadn’t existed prior. This is a clean install that I didn’t attempt to install Dreamscene on prior.
I put a few Dreamscene WMV, MPG, and.Dream files in the folder but right-clicking them never produces the “Set as background” option. One more thing to add after running the installer and getting the “uninstalled” message the explorer interface started to reboot but never came back. I had to manually open the Task Manager and run the explorer process.
I’m adding this info in case it helps and to give as much info as I can. Same question as cnitin for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
I just followed the directions above and oddly the Command Prompt window stated it successfully “uninstalled” Dreamscene. Yet it created the Windows Dreamscene folder that hadn’t existed prior. This is a clean install that I didn’t attempt to install Dreamscene on prior.
I put a few Dreamscene WMV, MPG, and.Dream files in the folder but right-clicking them never produces the “Set as background” option. One more thing to add after running the installer and getting the “uninstalled” message the explorer interface started to reboot but never came back. I had to manually open the Task Manager and run the explorer process. I’m adding this info in case it helps and to give as much info as I can. Same question as cnitin for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
I just followed the directions above and oddly the Command Prompt window stated it successfully “uninstalled” Dreamscene. Yet it created the Windows Dreamscene folder that hadn’t existed prior. This is a clean install that I didn’t attempt to install Dreamscene on prior. I put a few Dreamscene WMV, MPG, and.Dream files in the folder but right-clicking them never produces the “Set as background” option. One more thing to add after running the installer and getting the “uninstalled” message the explorer interface started to reboot but never came back. I had to manually open the Task Manager and run the explorer process. I’m adding this info in case it helps and to give as much info as I can.
Dreamscene for 64-bit windows 7: After searching on Google, i found the dreamscene files for win-7 64-bit. These are for win-7 beta 1 but works fine on final release of windows too (i have Win-7 64-bit 6.1 build 7600) Download Link: (rar archive 156.63 KB) (7-zip archive 147.32KB) You need to restart the computer for dreamscene to work though context menu option appear without restarting. While video is playing in background, text on desktop (shortcut names) appears blurred and rest works fine.
Dreamscene for 64-bit windows 7: After searching on Google, i found the dreamscene files for win-7 64-bit. These are for win-7 beta 1 but works fine on final release of windows too (i have Win-7 64-bit 6.1 build 7600) Download Link: (rar archive 156.63 KB) (7-zip archive 147.32KB) You need to restart the computer for dreamscene to work though context menu option appear without restarting. While video is playing in background, text on desktop (shortcut names) appears blurred and rest works fine.
Dreamscene for 64-bit windows 7: After searching on Google, i found the dreamscene files for win-7 64-bit. These are for win-7 beta 1 but works fine on final release of windows too (i have Win-7 64-bit 6.1 build 7600) Download Link: (rar archive 156.63 KB) (7-zip archive 147.32KB) You need to restart the computer for dreamscene to work though context menu option appear without restarting. While video is playing in background, text on desktop (shortcut names) appears blurred and rest works fine. One trick with this making words almost unreadable is once you select the video for your background and your icon text is all messed up, just go into your preferences and change your wallpaper to solid colors and select “Black”. Once you do that, then go back and select the video you want playing. As said before, you must have “Show Translucent selection rectangle” selected.
Also for the questions if this works on windows 7 64 bit. I don’t about this version, but there are some out there that do work. I am using one right now. Comments are closed.