Stardock deskscapes vista home premium

If this solves the problem, but when you reboot DeskScapes stops working again, the most likely cause is that for some reason Windows has shut off the DWM. To learn more about the Windows Experience Score visit this web site. The reason Windows scores below 2. Most modern video cards will score over 2. Once Windows 7 or Vista records the WEI score, the benchmark needs to be run again to update the score for the new card.

So if you have recently replaced your graphics card and your WEI score is still below 2. Ensuring that all of the files for DeskScapes are present and installed correctly is crucial to the successful operation. If you check all of the other things above and DeskScapes is still not working try uninstalling and reinstalling DeskScapes.

That that point if themes still do not apply, please contact our support at the following email. When sending an email to support for DeskScapes, please attach output from dxdiag and InstalledCodec process listed above to obtain output from those programs into a file. Thank you! Please check your email for a confirmation link. Once confirmed, you can look forward to receiving exclusive specials and announcements direct from Stardock.

Visit the Microsoft FAQ page dedicated to video codecs here. DeskScapes is telling me I don't have a video codec. What does that mean? Windows 8 no longer includes a MPEG2 video decoder by default most Windows 7 installs do include this. We recommend video dreams be encoded as. AVI or. This allows you to preview each dream, before clicking to keep that dream.

When you click on a dream, you may notice a number of options appear near the bottom of the window. The options vary for each dream. Dynamic dreams typically have different options from video-based dreams.

For video-based dreams, the options may include "How should the picture be positioned? Simply click the desired position i. The positioning options include:. An additional option which may be available is "Use internal player" unchecked by default which allows you to use the DeskScapes internal video player vs. Check the box to select the DeskScapes video internal player, uncheck to use the Windows player. If Windows is having trouble playing the video dream, try checking this box to use the DeskScapes player.

An additional setting available for Triggered Dreams is "Choose a specific video from set" which is a blue link located under the picture position thumbnails. Triggered Video dreams include multiple videos that start at different times of the day.

Clicking this link opens a "Triggered Dream Settings" dialog box that allows you to select which video plays or let it "Automatically select which video to play Default ". To change the video, under the option "Always play a specific video from this Dream" selected by default click on the pull-down menu and select the desired video. Click to apply the change. Dynamic dreams may offer two options: "Dynamic wallpaper settings" and "Performance settings".

These options if available are located under the list of available dreams, in the lower, left corner of the window. Clicking either will open a dialog box. Each dynamic wallpaper may offer options to change how it works, however not all dreams may give you the option the change the settings. If you click on a dream and do not see this link appear, it is not available. For dreams that do offer it, each will be different. The first dream is a Bouncing Box, which shows a rotating, bouncing box with the Stardock logo and name on the sides.

Changing the box size or speed will dynamically change the box on your desktop as you move the slider. Click to accept the changes. The settings allow you to toggle the earth from revolving on by default. Uncheck the box next to "Revolving Earth" and the earth will stop spinning. With the box checked you can adjust the "Rotation Speed" fast or slow of the earth by moving the slider. Clicking will return the settings to the default positions when the dream was first installed.

Click to save changes. The Water Dream is a video-based dream, with water droplets splashing on a pool of claim water above a sandy bottom. The settings offer a number of options that affect the water surface i.

Time Between Drips, Drip Size , background i. Ground Image and Tiling of the background image. After changing anything, click to apply the changes.

Tiling of Sand default setting. Tiling of Sand - highest setting far right , notice more vertical ripples in sand. Reason for Karma Optional. You should be able to answerr this yourself better than we can answer it for you. Did you like the functionality of the included dreams? Do you wnat more dreams? Have you looked at what's available in the Wincustomize Dream gallery? Do any of those appeal to you? We're looking up the edits for this post Well thanks for the input, jojo and Zubaz.

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