Topic: Dreamscene

[gordo]

Don't know how many of you guys use win 7 .  Maybe you have heard of Dreamscene a great little feature that enables  certain movie formats to be used as a background on the desktop.   I believe it is on Vista too, after having another minor heart attack type thingy I needed to find something to play with to help me relax a little; so tried it out .

To enable Dreamscene and to save a lot of copying and pasting  Go Here      And follow the instructions.  and then when you are enabled and ready to add some movies  Pop Over Here    and download some and try them out.  They aren't huge in size and do not put strain on the CPU.   

Once Dreamscene is enabled .. The easiest way of using a movie as a background was to extrat them to a folder (My Videos) and simply right click and select "set as Background"


I also looked at a windows version of the Linux Cube using another piece of software,  will post something when I have tried it out.

[Talvace]

Yeah I use dreamscene on vista. I think it' only comes with vista ultimate though and win7. It is very cool though and comes with some pretty good stock dreamscene content. Before vista came out I tried using animated gif files for desktops with xp. It worked, however it used most of the system resources just to render the desktop, lol, same idea with dreamscene except it works alot better.

[bigguy]

Never heard of it, nice find though for sure. I will bookmark this topic so I can check it out later.

[Nesa]

It looks interesting, how much CPU resources will this use?
I'm debating if I should turn off Aero in windows 7 as well.

[gordo]

I can't find any deffinate amount but what I have read it is small, and areo should be left on.   

I just tried a similar thing on XP  whereby a little programe converts the dreamscene movie to an html file, but everytime I ran it as background I got the lovely BSOD.  so gave up on that.

[Nesa]

Will Windows 7 run slow if areo is switched off?

[alahuin]

Will Windows 7 run slow if areo is switched off?

I think not...
Have a peek at this and decide for yourself Nesa, the same should apply to W7...
http://www.petri.co.il/vista_aero_performance_issues.htm 
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And this:-
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"Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 7Right Click on your Desktop and select ” Personalize ” click the Window Color Tab.Uncheck the Box saying ” Enable Transparency ” and then click on ” Open classic appearance properties for more color options”.Then a window will open up. Apply a Standard or Basic theme from it. The Standard Windows 7 theme is more preferred.The aero user interface certainly adds some ” Eyecandy ” to Windows 7 but certainly is a resource hog especially when, what you expect from windows 7 is more performance juice. Aero user interface squeezes your graphics or video card to its maximum. So why dont we just avoid the Windows 7 aero? if we care more about speed and performance in Windows 7. So Disabling the Aero in Windows 7 certainly adds an extra speed boost to it."

[Nesa]

I had a look at dwm.exe and it was using about 10MB of ram, when I turned areo off it was using 1MB.
I don't need any eye candy on windows xp I disabled the eye candy as well and made it look like Windows 2000.