Recently, we showed you how to set a video as your desktop wallpaper in VLC. Users of all versions of Windows 7 & Vista can enable a DreamScene using VLC. When you are ready for a change, click Disable DreamScene and switch back to your previous wallpaper. You can Pause the DreamScene at anytime by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Pause DreamScene. To play your DreamScene, browse for the file in Windows Explorer, right-click the file and select Set as Desktop Background.Īlthough it says it is for Windows 7 only, we were able to get it to work with no problems on Vista Home Premium x32 as well. This will also restart Windows Explorer if it is open. exe and select Run as administrator.Ĭlick on Enable DreamScene. Once extracted, you'll need to run the application as administrator. Users can then set either MPG or WMV files as desktop wallpaper.ĭownload and extract the Windows 7 DreamScene Activator (link below). This free portable utility enables DreamScene in both 32 & 64 bit versions of Windows 7. If you are running Windows 7 you can use Windows 7 DreamScene Activator. They'll come as compressed files, so you'll need to extract them after downloading. You can find those download links at the end of the article. We've found some nice ones at both and DeviantArt. It was dropped in Windows 7, but we'll take a look at how to play DreamScenes in all versions of Windows 7 or Vista.įirst, you'll need to find some DreamScenes to download. Windows DreamScene was a utility available for Vista Ultimate that allowed users to set video as desktop wallpaper.