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Windows DreamScene - a Vista Ultimate Extra
21 February 2007 in Multimedia & Screens + Vids | Comments (1)

Last night I downloaded Windows DreamScene - a free download from Microsoft available from Windows Ultimate Extras (Start > Control Panel > Windows Update).

DreamScene is a desktop enhancement available for users of Windows Vista Ultimate, which - assuming you can run Aero - allows you to run full motion video as your Desktop Background.

It’s merely a bit of a frivolity - but it also looks kinda cool, as you can see from this video posted on YouTube…

It is however quite power hungry - on my 1.83ghz laptop with 1gig of RAM, running a DreamScene desktop uses about 30-40% of my CPU when not running any software. That’s a lot just to have a moving desktop. Having said that… it does depend on the background video being shown.

For more information on DreamScene, visit WindowsUltimate.com.

It’s an interesting enhancement, and it’s free! Worth a look - the question is… how useful is it?!