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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February 5th, 2009 09:03
strike
January 25th, 2009 03:26
chabbbon pone imagenes porque es un quilombo esto del dreamscne… me sale mas barato pasarme al windows ultimate y listo
saludos y gracias por tu tiempo
January 21st, 2009 02:57
ok, so I tried this and it worked BUT now my customize windows menu extension cant be found as well as the customize colors menu extension. I get some error saying the shell::: so and so could not be found. What the hell, is there a way to reverse this install?
January 16th, 2009 18:18
pourriez vous s’il vous plait m’envoyer le fichier dll merci d’avance
January 16th, 2009 10:43
I did the manual install and get the option under my background, but when I select a video the background is black. I have 32Bit Vista Home Premium. Any tips?
January 15th, 2009 09:48
[...] enable the DreamScene support in Windows7. In order to enable DreamScene in Windows 7, the similar hack which allows DreamScene to be installed on non-Ultimate edition of Windows Vista such as Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Enterprise edition is used. The [...]
January 13th, 2009 00:19
provide dream scene for me plzzzzzzzzzzzz……………..
January 2nd, 2009 18:16
this will work on vista starter
December 22nd, 2008 15:45
Gr8 mannnnn!
It really works…..
amazing//
December 9th, 2008 03:11
Thanks! Working on my Vista Home Basic! But it’s only got good support on WMV files. Please convert the “Aurora” MPEG file to WMV!!!
November 27th, 2008 11:31
I’d like a copy of the DreamScene hack please!
November 18th, 2008 02:57
hi all
November 12th, 2008 15:20
It really works with me.
Thanks you so much!
Cuongnd@
November 9th, 2008 13:15
…Is there an archive, NonUltimateDreamscene_x64.zip , or something, that exists that has the 64-bit versions of the binaries? That’s why it won’t work for the 64-bit versions of Vista or 2008…
October 29th, 2008 00:14
Hello, thanks por DreamScene
October 17th, 2008 22:05
Link won’t work
WIll this work in Windows Vista Home Basic? Because I like DreamScene, and I don’t wanna upgrade to Vista Ultimate.
PS: FU*K THE TEAM THAT MADE DREAMSCENE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR VISTA ULTIMATE!
October 10th, 2008 15:01
I applied the patch and did everything that the instructions on this page say to do and now when i click on personalization Vista says page failed to load, is there another way to get dream scene working? I am running 64bit Business
October 6th, 2008 22:39
Download the Hack here
http://depositfiles.com/es/files/846266
October 3rd, 2008 05:36
It’s not working my friend.
I tried twice.
September 29th, 2008 08:45
where I can find those dream patches?
September 28th, 2008 02:35
hi i actually did all the mentioned above. but i forgot to take backup of original file ie themecpl.dll now wat do i do? can i copy from another vista machine and paste ? will it work? can someone send me the original file?
September 14th, 2008 01:07
it really works
!!! (vista basic sp1)
August 18th, 2008 19:43
Tried on my Home Premium but fail and I had to roll my Vista back to last Vista Update using System Restore (it didn’t work if I just restore to my latest restore point).
Better don’t try this on computer you used to works.
August 7th, 2008 17:56
x
July 24th, 2008 05:44
saludos