One of Vista Ultimate’s exclusive add-ons (although I find it a bit pointless), is Dreamscene. An application which allows you to put a WMV or MPEG file as your desktop’s background. Still, if you think that that application could be useful for you, there are already some Windows tools that do exactly that, at no extra price.

VLC (Video Lan Client) is one of those said tools. It’s a multi-platform Media Player with incorporated codecs, which means that you can watch videos encoded in the most popular formats without the need of installing any extra software. Here is a reduced version of the referred guide:

1. Download and install the latest VLC Player version
2. Open the Video you want to set as wallpaper (in VLC)
3. Right click the video and choose Wallpaper

And that’s it really. If you want to remove VLC from the systray (Dreamscene doesn’t appear there), you can follow the other steps in the guide. This beats shelling out $400 for this Windows “exclusivity” if you ask me.

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Windows Vista Video
Vista Upgrade Version requires XP or 2000 installed to install

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