A look at the Windows DreamScene Content Pack Favorites

Earlier today, Nick and Barry announced the release of the Ultimate Extra Windows DreamScene. Windows DreamScene lets Windows Vista Ultimate users choose full-motion video as their desktop wallpaper.

 

After installing the final release of Windows DreamScene, I was prompted to download the Windows DreamScene Content Pack Favorites. With Windows DreamScene, you get a standard set of 4 DreamScenes to use on your desktop. The Windows DreamScene Content Pack adds 4 more new DreamScenes for your desktop. Here is a video I created of my desktop PC running several of the new DreamScenes:


Video: Windows DreamScene Released - New DreamScenes

The glowing Windows Vista orb can be downloaded as a Windows Vista Ultimate wallpaper at the Windows Ultimate website. The glowing Windows Vista orb DreamScene is my favorite. The waterfall DreamScene was shown off during the demos at CES last January.

On top of the Windows DreamScene Content Pack Favorites - you can also download (and share) "dreams" over on Stardock's Dream Gallery.

What is your favorite Windows DreamScene?


Comments

  1. Posted on: March 04, 2008 at 3:25PM  

    Hello.

    Can anyone help? I am experiencing an annoying problem with DreamScene. A few weeks ago, without any obvious cause all the videos in DreamScene became scrambled. It's as if a wrong codec was installed, only that I hadn't changed anything about codecs in months. I wanted to post a clipboard picture here, but there seems to be no way to do that. Anyway, DreamScene is completely usless now. First I tried to install a different codec pack. This didn't help, so I tried to uninstall DreamScene and reinstall it again. I went to installed updates and removed all the DreamScene files. But then I found out that there is no way to reinstall them again. I looked everywhere, but there seems to be noone having the same problem. I only managed to install the last update for DreamScene(from 2.8.08 I think) which by the way, before I uninstalled DreamScene, kept offering itself to install via update although I had it already installed.

    The installation went smoothly this time and this time the update stopped offering itself again. The problem with the scrambled video remains however. Only this time I can choose from only one file of scrambled video in the DreamScene content menu, instead of 8 or so as it used to be.

    To sum it up I am looking for a solution to these two problems:

    How do I get the video in DreamScene to play without distortion.

    And how do I reacquire content that I lost through the uninstallation. (Note that Windows Update doesn't let me download any of the previously dwnloaded files again / no offers for DreamScene whatsoever)

    I'm gradually growing a little desperate, since I really like DreamScene. So any help will be greatly appretiated. Thanx.

  2. Posted on: March 04, 2008 at 4:59PM  

    Ok, so the contents now seem to be available for download again - downloading now - strange thing is that when I was checking for updates some hours ago, nothing happened. Now another scan worked.

    The distortion issue remains however.

  3. Posted on: March 06, 2008 at 7:53AM  

    I would like to share my new video art "Awaken 2008" as online streaming or free downloadable wmv. You can use also as dreamscene. I would like to get your comments.

    Serdar Camlica

    http://3dfiction.com

  4. Posted on: May 08, 2008 at 11:14AM  

    I just installed Vista Ultimate. There aren't any content packs available except the language packs.  Has microsoft stopped releasing content packs?  As I read above it appears that there have been new content packs release.  If a content pack is not listed in the "Extras" portion of the update, where can I download the content?

  5. frank
    Posted on: November 10, 2008 at 4:43AM  

    hi, i have downloaded some content from dream.wincustomise.com but how do i get them to work? they are on the desktop atm and the one i have from the windows update is in mpeg format and these are .dream format, so is there something else i need or what am i doing wrong? i have dreamscene and ultimate so i dont understand why they wont work

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  1. Posted by: Bink.nu on September 26, 2007 at 9:20AM

    First off, I want to congratulate Barry and the Windows Ultimate team for finally stepping in the right