Hack to Run DreamScene in Vista Home Premium, Basic, Starter, Business and Enterprise
Own a non-Ultimate edition of Windows Vista, but very like the DreamScene application featured in Ultimate Extras package? With most OEM brand computers factory installed Windows Vista Home Premium or Home Basic, and corporates go for Windows Vista Enterprise edition, Microsoft will be earning a lot if everybody upgrade to Ultimate version with Windows Anytime Upgrade just for DreamScene. There’re alternative programs in VideoLAN’s VLC Player and BS.Player that can be used to set video as desktop background wallpaper, however, this is a hack to allow users in any editions of Vista to run native and original Windows DreamScene from Microsoft.
Hack to install Windows DreamScene in non-Ultimate Vista
- Download the patched DreamScene dll files package
NonUltimateDreamScene.zip (alternative link)(Sorry, Demand for Immediate Take Down received). - Unpack the archive content to a folder.
- Right click on InstallDreamScene.bat and select “Run as Administrator” to install Windows DreamScene on your non-Ultimate version of Vista. Answer “Y” to continue. You can also open elevated command prompt with administrator rights and type InstallDreamScene.bat to execute the batch script.
- Restart your computer.
Note: Apparently you can still download the patched version of DreamScene somewhere, however, most is offering incorrect version of install script, which was fixed in second edition. If you encounter problem, simply follow manual method below. Non-English version try to install English language pack. Please provide feedback at the forum or comment.
Voila, your system now will run DreamScene without paying hefty Ultimate price. If you prefer to manually to install the patched DreamScene DLL files, here’s the step-by-step guide:
- Download the patched DreamScene files as above and unpack to a folder.
- Copy DreamScene.dll to %WinDir%\System32\ folder.
- Copy DreamScene.dll.mui to %WinDir%\System32\en-US\ folder.
- In Windows Explorer, navigate to %WinDir%\System32\ folder.
- Right click on themecpl.dll file, and click on Properties on right click menu.
- Select the Security tab, then click Advanced.
- Subsequenly select the Owner tab, click Edit button. Press Continue (or log in if you’re not Administrator) on any User Access Control prompt.
- Select your Vista logon user name, then click OK button. Then click OK in any dialog window that pops up, and press OK again at Advanced Security Settings window.
- On Security tab, click the Edit button. Press Continue (or log in if you’re not already an Administrator) on User Access Control prompt.
- Click Add button, and click on Advanced button. Next press Find Now button, and then select your logged on user name. Press OK when done.
- Click OK again on Select Users or Groups dialog.
- On Permissions for themecpl.dll window, highlight your user name, and check the box next to “Full Control” under “Allow” column. Hit OK when done, and confirm any message. Click OK twice to exit from ownership taking process.
- Rename the file themecpl.dll in %WinDir%\System32 to themecpl.dll.original.
- Copy the patched version of themecpl.dll to %WinDir%\System32\ folder.
- Repeat step 4 - 12 on themecpl.dll.mui file located in %WinDir%\System32\en-US\ folder.
- After taking ownership, rename the file %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui to themecpl.dll.mui.original.
- Copy the patched version of themecpl.dll.mui to %WinDir%\System32\en-US\ folder.
- Create a new folder in %windir%\Web named “Windows DreamScene” (without quotes). This is the location to place all your videos want to set as DreamScene wallpaper, and can be easily configured via Control Panel Personalization applet.
- Lastly, import and merge DreamScene.reg to registry.
- Reboot computer.
Using DreamScene
After patching, right click on any blank space on Desktop, select “Personalize”, then click on “Desktop Background”. Under location, select “Windows DreamScene Content”, and then select a animated video you want.
Source: UnfocusedOne
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June 30th, 2007 03:24
Hello Rozzer, since you do installed dreamscene in your Vista in Spanish, I have Home Premium and wanted that also she settles in mine, the indicated steps of the installation estan in English, I understand until certain help part but I am confused there for that reason if she is not much to please request me in the passages in Spanish. So long
June 28th, 2007 19:24
MR> .dream files are propietary of stardock´s deskcape sofware that only runs (for the moment) in vista ultimate, there is no way tu run .dreams files in vista home right now.
FRANK> yo lo instalado en español y funciona sin problemas. sigue los pasos como dice el articulo. tienes que ser propietario y darte permisos en los archivos que has de sustituir
Rozzer
June 22nd, 2007 12:18
They can say porfavor the steps to me to install the DreamScene Windows in Spanish already I have the patch but since I do in the installation. Greetings
June 22nd, 2007 11:21
I’m having the exact same problem as Mikey commented earlier, but I didn’t see a response: I have everything working, video will run as the wallpaper, I can see the DreamScene Content on the drop down, but my system doesn’t see (or run) the .DREAM files. Any ideas?
June 21st, 2007 16:03
Por favorrrrrrrrrrr pon los pasos en español, animate tio porfa haslo tu puedesssssssss.
Saludos y espero me contestes
June 16th, 2007 15:44
So….i managed to get this works if i right click a video file and select set as wallpaper, but “dreamscene contect” doesn’t appear in the drop down menu….plz help
June 11th, 2007 18:29
Hi. Can you send a link to the hacked DreamScene dlls?
Thanks so much!
Dirk
June 11th, 2007 00:13
fixed the BAT file to actually copy the files:
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@echo off
TITLE Windows DreamScene for non-Ultimate Vista
echo.
echo Windows DreamScene for non-Ultimate Vista
echo for Windows Vista Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Enterprise Editions
echo.
echo (c) My Digital Life (www.mydigitallife.info)
echo.
echo.
echo Confirm to install? (Press Ctrl-C and answer Y to terminate)
pause
echo.
echo.
copy DreamScene.dll , %WinDir%\System32\DreamScene.dll /y
copy DreamScene.dll , %WinDir%\System32\en-US\DreamScene.dll /y
takeown /f %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll
icacls %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll /grant “%username%”:f
copy %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll.original
copy themecpl.dll %WinDir%\System32\themecpl.dll /y
takeown /f %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui
icacls %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui /grant “%username%”:f
copy %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui.original
copy themecpl.dll.mui %WinDir%\System32\en-US\themecpl.dll.mui /y
mkdir “%WinDir%\Web\Windows DreamScene”
reg import DreamScene.reg
echo.
echo *** Windows DreamScene installation completed. ***
echo.
pause
June 10th, 2007 05:56
Hi, i have installed dream scene and it is in the personalize menu, however when i try to select dream scene content i get a task bar icon that says DreamScene can only run when Windows AERO sceme is selected. I have vista home premium on my laptop but it wont support AERO. Is there anyway around this?
June 8th, 2007 23:11
hi.
this does not seem to work on my english vista 64 business. The personalize-page does not appear and it says “This page could not be loaded”.
Anyone else got experiences?
June 7th, 2007 02:54
This is English version only. If you would like to translate may be it’s possible to create an Italian version.
June 6th, 2007 20:22
Can I install in my windows home premium italian language?
I have to create an \en-US\ folder under System32 ????
May 30th, 2007 13:02
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May 23rd, 2007 13:00
kay,
got the file dowloaded,
let u know weather it works.
Thanks a lot Bro
May 22nd, 2007 21:43
i used this guide and it works
one problem tho,i purchased a Dell Inspiron system and it came with Vista Basic. After i used the hack i was able to run DreamScenes theme, but how come my CPU load run constantly on 25-40%, if i switch to a picture as wallpaper the load drop to 0-2%. I think my system’s good enough to run it.
May 20th, 2007 23:01
A must have for Dreamscene is DeskScapes, this allows .Dream files to be used as the desktop backgrounds. Mostly all sreamscene backgrounds are being made as these .Dream files now as they run smoother, however the program DeskScapes checks to see if your OS is Vista Ultimate which with this hack it is not. So the next thing to do would be to get DeskScapes to work on any version of vista or if there is a way to make it think that you have Vista Ultimate then that too could work. Please get back to me if there is any way and here is a website about DeskScapes and .Dream Backgrounds. http://dream.wincustomize.com/index.aspx?c=1
Thanks.
May 20th, 2007 13:24
rooofey, for XP, try BS.Player or VLC.
May 20th, 2007 06:43
man i thought i could run it on xp but guess not oh well
May 20th, 2007 05:52
heres a mega upload version:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=08CSA6GD
May 20th, 2007 05:40
ananda read
anyways heres the link for downloading:
http://rapidshare.com/files/30860269/NonUltimateDreamScene.zip
May 20th, 2007 03:50
of windows? im using xp sp2 i believe
May 20th, 2007 01:55
What edition you’re using?
May 20th, 2007 00:07
i dont see a security tab when i click on properties can someone help me out?
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