Vista Ultimate Dream Scene

When I first installed Vista Ultimate, the dream scene worked great. Then,
when there was an update to the Dream Scene content from microsoft
(basically, it just added a few more choices of videos), Dream Scene stopped
working. It just shows a black screen with little squares moving around on
it. It isn't as if this is a vital feature of Vista, but I was just wondering
if anyone else had run into this problem, and what they did to solve it.

Thanks!1

Can you reenable it back from under Personalize > Change Desktop Background?

Have you updated you video card drivers lately?
--
Andre
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My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry

"Jim55417" <> wrote in message
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> When I first installed Vista Ultimate, the dream scene worked great. Then,
> when there was an update to the Dream Scene content from microsoft
> (basically, it just added a few more choices of videos), Dream Scene
> stopped
> working. It just shows a black screen with little squares moving around on
> it. It isn't as if this is a vital feature of Vista, but I was just
> wondering
> if anyone else had run into this problem, and what they did to solve it.
>
> Thanks!1

Normally that is a symptom of a bad video card or Driver.

"Jim55417" wrote:

> When I first installed Vista Ultimate, the dream scene worked great. Then,
> when there was an update to the Dream Scene content from microsoft
> (basically, it just added a few more choices of videos), Dream Scene stopped
> working. It just shows a black screen with little squares moving around on
> it. It isn't as if this is a vital feature of Vista, but I was just wondering
> if anyone else had run into this problem, and what they did to solve it.
>
> Thanks!1

My video card is fine. There are a couple of other short video clips that I
have that work as a desktop background. The only difference I can find,
though, is that the videos that do work are .wmv, while the dream scene
videos are .mpg files.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:

> Can you reenable it back from under Personalize > Change Desktop Background?
>
> Have you updated you video card drivers lately?
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>
> "Jim55417" <> wrote in message
> news:7779D816-D5FC-4F56-BE8C-...
> > When I first installed Vista Ultimate, the dream scene worked great. Then,
> > when there was an update to the Dream Scene content from microsoft
> > (basically, it just added a few more choices of videos), Dream Scene
> > stopped
> > working. It just shows a black screen with little squares moving around on
> > it. It isn't as if this is a vital feature of Vista, but I was just
> > wondering
> > if anyone else had run into this problem, and what they did to solve it.
> >
> > Thanks!1
>
>
>

"Mick Murphy" <> wrote in message
news:72FCB6B2-BAD5-4BBB-A7AC-...
> Normally that is a symptom of a bad video card or Driver.

Sorry, Mick, that's just nonsense.

I have the same problems. People have paid over the odds for Dreamscene and
to fob off with a 'bad driver' generic diagnosis is extremely unhelpful.

Jim, I can get the desktop wallpaper changer to preview the material (by
which I mean it shows up with 'filmstrip' icons) but nothing works from
there, just giving me a black desktop. However, the video plays fine in WMP.

This is on a Sony AR31, vista ultimate UK, with official Sony/Nvidia
drivers.

Ring any bells?

>
> "Jim55417" wrote:
>
>> When I first installed Vista Ultimate, the dream scene worked great.
>> Then,
>> when there was an update to the Dream Scene content from microsoft
>> (basically, it just added a few more choices of videos), Dream Scene
>> stopped
>> working. It just shows a black screen with little squares moving around
>> on
>> it. It isn't as if this is a vital feature of Vista, but I was just
>> wondering
>> if anyone else had run into this problem, and what they did to solve it.
>>
>> Thanks!1

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:26:55 -0000, "Dave" <>
wrote:

>
>"Mick Murphy" <> wrote in message
>news:72FCB6B2-BAD5-4BBB-A7AC-...
>> Normally that is a symptom of a bad video card or Driver.
>
>Sorry, Mick, that's just nonsense.
>
>I have the same problems. People have paid over the odds for Dreamscene and
>to fob off with a 'bad driver' generic diagnosis is extremely unhelpful.
>
>Jim, I can get the desktop wallpaper changer to preview the material (by
>which I mean it shows up with 'filmstrip' icons) but nothing works from
>there, just giving me a black desktop. However, the video plays fine in WMP.
>
>This is on a Sony AR31, vista ultimate UK, with official Sony/Nvidia
>drivers.
>
>Ring any bells?
>
>>
>> "Jim55417" wrote:
>>
>>> When I first installed Vista Ultimate, the dream scene worked great.
>>> Then,
>>> when there was an update to the Dream Scene content from microsoft
>>> (basically, it just added a few more choices of videos), Dream Scene
>>> stopped
>>> working. It just shows a black screen with little squares moving around
>>> on
>>> it. It isn't as if this is a vital feature of Vista, but I was just
>>> wondering
>>> if anyone else had run into this problem, and what they did to solve it.
>>>
>>> Thanks!1
I have the same problem, pretty-much, except DreamScene itself works
just fine, but no DreamScene content is showing up in Windows Update
w/Microsoft Update enabled.

So far, I've been unable to find a solution other than reinstalling
Vista clean. And I'm not even sure that will work. I plan on
reinstalling my system tomorrow morning. I will let y'all know
whether that reenables DreamScene content on WU.

I will keep working for a little while, but it appears right now that
DreamScene content is still unavailable via Windows Update with
Microsoft Update enabled.

Donald L.McDaniel
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